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Blue Fever

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blue fever
Usage notes: informal
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, so named for the dark cyanotic discoloration of the skin after the initial rickettsial infection. The disease is characterized by headache, chills, and fever, as well as a rash. See also rickettsiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus.

Blue Fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an acute tick-borne illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii


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Hill's men had been dubbed the Sky Blues at the start of the 62-63 season and the lyrics, by the ever-resourceful Hill and director John Camkin, to the tune of the Eton Boating Song, were compiled on the back of the heady Sky Blue fever rapidly engulfing Coventry and Warwickshire at the time.
 
 
 
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