(medicine) A disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted from birds to mosquitoes and then to people. Symptoms include drowsiness, headache and nausea, pain in the abdomen, a rash, and swollen glands, and may prove fatal.

(medicine) A mosquito-borne, acute, febrile, viral disease of humans and animals, caused by an RNA virus of the genus Phlebovirus, which occurs in northern and eastern Africa.

Alternative form of cat-scratch fever

A viral disease of cattle, caused by species of genus Ephemerovirus, transmitted by insects.

(medicine) Rocky Mountain spotted fever

(medicine) Texas fever

(medicine) A slight fever, typically defined as never exceeding 38.5 degrees Celsius (about 101 degrees Fahrenheit).

(pathology) a hereditary inflammatory disorder, characterized by recurrent fever, that affects groups of people originating from around the Mediterranean Sea, including Armenians, Sephardi Jews, Greeks, and Arabs

Epidemic polyarthritis, a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by infection with Ross River virus.

Indicates that the speaker has an abnormally high body temperature, which is usually a symptom of a disease.