Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
salmon poisoning Function:
noun : a highly fatal febrile disease of fish-eating dogs and other canine mammals that resembles canine distemper and is caused bya rickettsial bacterium (
Neorickettsia helminthoeca) transmitted by encysted larvae of a fluke (
Nanophyetus salmincola) ingested with the raw flesh of infested salmon, trout, orsalamanders
