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beaver fever

noun

  1. an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It was unsurprising that he had one; he spent most of his New Hampshire boyhood doing God knows what in a swamp that he and his friends nicknamed “Beaver Fever.â€

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I remember a weeks-long period of my western Massachusetts childhood when we had to boil all our drinking water because beavers had unleashed “beaver fever,†or giardiasis, into the town water supply.

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Of particular concern is giardiasis, a parasitic intestinal complaint commonly known as “beaver feverâ€.

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Notes from that case report indicate that water from the spring was trucked to a wedding reception at the Alpha Grange hall in Onalaska where an attendee wound up with a case of, as the report reads, “beaver fever.â€

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In bareback, Steven Peebles of Redmond, Oregon, won the round with an 84.5 on Beaver Fever.

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