African Coast Fever, noun phrase

Obsolete. Pathology. East Coast Fever.
1905 D. Hutcheon in Flint & Gilchrist Science in S. Afr. 340Dr. Koch showed that African Coast Fever differs from Texas Fever...It has since been found, although not recognized by Koch, that..the blood of cattle immune to African Coast Fever is not infective...The local lesions in certain organs are quite different in African Coast Fever from those seen in Redwater.
[1910 A.B. Lamont Rural Reader 95Other diseases, such as African East Coast fever, are spread by means of ticks.]
1914 S.P. Hyatt Old Transport Rd 139The African Coast Fever..wiped out ninety-seven per cent. of the cattle owned by white men.
1916 Farmer’s Weekly 27 Dec. 1618Several deaths occurred amongst cattle on A’s farm, and the Veterinary Department, suspecting African coast fever, had the cattle affected removed to another of A’s farms.
1955 J.H. Wellington Sn Afr.: Geog. Study II. 79East Coast fever, or ‘African Coast fever’, a very virulent and highly fatal form of piroplasmosis.
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