The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. brucellosis
WordNet
n. infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache [syn: brucellosis, Malta fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever, Mediterranean fever]
Usage examples of "undulant fever".
After kissing him smack on the mouth in front of everybody, the Junoesque doctor told him she'd wired a list of the observed symptoms all the way to the Surgeon General's office, and been assured they sure seemed to add up to Malta or what some now called undulant fever.
The host FGHJs caught something that caused a mild, undulant fever, and recovered.