redwater fever

English

Noun

redwater fever (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A kind of fever borne by ticks, especially in cattle.
   • 2010, Claire Strom, Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys: The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South:

     While cattle can develop an immunity to babesiosis, in nonimmune cattle the destruction of the blood cells by the merozoites releases hemoglobin, resulting in the characteristic red urin (and feces) associated w ith Texas fever, also called redwater or redwater fever, murrain, spenetic fever, splenetic fever, Spanish fever, acclimation fever, southern fever, and eventually, after the etiology of the disease was deciphered, tick fever.

Synonyms

• Texas fever

Hypernyms

• fever

Hyponyms

• Rhodesian fever
• Rhodesian redwater fever