The Collaborative International Dictionary
malta fever
malta fever \malta fever\ n. (Med.) An infectious disease contracted from meat or milk products from infected domestic animals; called also brucellosis and undulant fever.
Usage examples of "malta fever".
We've yet to isolate the exact microbe causing Malta fever, but we know it's not transmitted from one human being to another.
Far graver was the real difference between this muster and the last, no less than eleven men having been taken to hospital, four with Malta fever, four with the great pox, two with limbs broken in drunken falls, and one pierced with a Maltese knife, while a twelfth was in prison, waiting trial for a rape.
Her Navajo visit coincided with an outbreak of Malta fever among the sheep.