Definition of Rabbit fever

1. Noun. A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals.

Exact synonyms: Deer Fly Fever, Tularaemia, Tularemia, Yatobyo
Terms within: Chancre
Generic synonyms: Zoonosis, Zoonotic Disease

Definition of Rabbit fever

1. Noun. (informal) tularemia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Rabbit fever

1. A rare infection of rabbits and rodents caused by the bacteria Francisella tularensis. Francisella tularensis is found in many animals (rabbits, rodents) and may be transmitted by direct contact or via insect bite (ticks and deer-fly). Humans can also contract the illness via the direct contact with the infected animal carcass (break in the skin). The illness is characterised by an ulcerative lesion at the site of the inoculation with regional lymph node swelling, pneumonia, fever, chills, headache, muscle pains and joint stiffness. Risk factors include an exposure to rabbits or recent tick bite. A vaccine is available for high risk workers. Treatment is with streptomycin or tetracycline. Tularaemia is fatal in 5% of untreated cases and in less than 1% of treated cases. Incidence: less than 200 cases per year (USA). Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (18 Jul 2002)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Fever

rabbit-eared bandicoot
rabbit-eye blueberry
rabbit-foot
rabbit-proof
rabbit-weed
rabbit bandicoot
rabbit board
rabbit boards
rabbit brush
rabbit burrow
rabbit bush
rabbit ear
rabbit ear mite
rabbit ear mites
rabbit ears
rabbit fever (current term)
rabbit fibroma
rabbit fibroma virus
rabbit food
rabbit foot
rabbit haemorrhagic disease
rabbit hole
rabbit holes
rabbit hutch
rabbit moth
rabbit moths
rabbit myxoma virus
rabbit on
rabbit plague
rabbit punch

Literary usage of Rabbit fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Threat of Bioterrorism and the Spread of Infectious Diseases: Hearing Before edited by Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (2001)
"And we came up with five and a group: smallpox; anthrax; plague; tularemia, or rabbit fever, as it's called, which can spread in an aerosol and cause quite ..."

2. The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1880)
"The rabbit fever is irregular in its course and leads to much wild and foolish speculation in which a great variety of people indulge. ..."

3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1897)
"... dignity to go rabbit hunting, but this year every one who could shoulder a gun was stricken with the rabbit fever. Big game, too. was very plentiful. ..."

4. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"These would most likely be living bacteria such as B. anthracis (anthrax), F. tularensis (tularemia—rabbit fever), Y. pestis (plague), and Shigella ..."

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