q fever

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   an acute disease resembling influenza

   Broaderrickettsial disease

Questions about q fever

What does q fever mean?

q fever means "an acute disease resembling influenza".

Is q fever a common word?

q fever is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.