deer fly fever

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deer fly fever - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  deer fly fever
      n 1: a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits
           and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks
           or flies or by handling infected animals [syn: tularemia,
           tularaemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, yatobyo]