(pathology) A tick-borne disease of cattle caused by the parasite Babesia bigemina.

(pathology) A contagious, usually fatal, disease of pigs, causing fever, skin lesions and convulsions, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV).

(pathology) any of various diseases transmitted by ticks

(pathology) An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.

(medicine) An acute, and often fatal, viral infection endemic to West Africa. Symptoms include fever, sore throat, muscle aches, a skin rash, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, ulcers, heart and kidney failure.

(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.