(medicine) A streptococcal infection, mainly occurring among children, and characterized by a red skin rash, sore throat and fever.

(pathology) Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.

(medicine) An extremely contagious and often fatal illness caused by the Ebola virus, characterised by fever and internal bleeding, contracted through infected body fluids.

(Australia, slang, obsolete, derogatory) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.

(pathology) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.

(pathology) dengue fever.

An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by varieties of the species Dengue virus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.

(psychology) A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space. / (obsolete) Typhus.

(pathology) Coccidioidomycosis, a mammalian fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii.

A severe inflammation of the lungs of cattle, caused by a bacterium of the genus Pasteurella, sometimes seen following the stress of transport to market under poor conditions.