sweating sickness

sweating sickness
sweating sickness n an epidemic febrile disease esp. of young cows that occurs chiefly in Africa, is characterized by profuse sweating and early high mortality, and is caused by a toxin produced and transmitted by a tick of the genus Hyalomma (H. truncatum)

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a febrile, tickborne illness affecting African cattle, especially calves, due to a toxin produced by Hyalomma truncatum, and characterized by the presence of moist eczematous lesions of the mucous membranes. Called also tick toxicosis.

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  • sweating sickness — noun a fever with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th–16th centuries …   English new terms dictionary

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  • Sweating sickness — An often fatal illness, named from one of its symptoms; probably a true influenza. Between 1315 and 1322 there was a series of epidemics accompanied by bad harvests and starvation. At the same time there were outbreaks of murrain. The result was… …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • SWEATING SICKNESS —    an epidemic of extraordinary malignity which swept over Europe, and especially England, in the 15th and 16th centuries, attacking with equal virulence all classes and all ages, and carrying off enormous numbers of people; was characterised by… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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