sandfly fever

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.

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Etymology

Origin of sandfly fever

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Malaria, dysentery, smallpox, typhus and sandfly fever were everpresent.

From Time Magazine Archive

In so far as there was sickness it consisted of a certain amount of dysentery, almost unavoidable in an army in the Field, septic sores, which are unusually rife, and a slight epidemic of sandfly fever.

From Project Gutenberg