Main Entry: sand·fly fever

Pronunciation: \ˈsan(d)-ˌflī-\

Function: noun

Date: 1910

: a virus disease of brief duration that is characterized by fever, headache, eye pain, malaise, and leukopenia and that is caused by either of two bunyaviruses (species Sandfly fever Naples virus and Sandfly fever Sicilian virus assigned or tentatively assigned to the genus Phlebovirus) transmitted by the bite of a sand fly (especially Phlebotomus papatasii) —called also phlebotomus fever