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/mˈaʊntən fˈivər/ Listen

Mountain fever

noun

Caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks. Synonyms: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick fever.

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"Mountain fever" Quotes from Famous Books

... required. When the strike was starting, Steele did not interfere, but warned the strikers that they must keep the peace and not commit any acts of violence or he would punish them to the full extent of the law. When the strike did start, Steele was in bed with mountain fever and Sergeant Fury had only six men. One of them, Constable Kerr, who had gone for a bottle of medicine for the Inspector, found on his way back a riotous crowd with a desperate character, well known to the Police, inciting the mob to violence ...

— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

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... the most ghastly cuts and bruises on the chaps in the lumber camps," he said, "and the miners are always blowing themselves up, and getting all sorts of chest troubles, not to speak of mountain fever, rheumatism, and the like. There is absolutely no place for them to go. Hickey's saloon is vile, noisy, and full of bugs. Ugh! I'll never forget the night I put in there. I can feel them yet. And besides, Hickey has a ...

— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

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Words linked to "Mountain fever" : spotted fever