The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spotted \Spot"ted\, a.
   Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The
   spotted panther." --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster]

   Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive
      fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal
      meningitis.

   Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia
      maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in
      spots.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spotted fever
    n 1: any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by
         skin rashes or spots on the skin

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

127 Moby Thesaurus words for "spotted fever":
   African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles,
   Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease,
   amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery,
   bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever,
   breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever,
   cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever,
   deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever,
   dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever,
   erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia,
   glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes,
   herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm,
   hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis,
   inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot,
   kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa,
   loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever,
   measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis,
   paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia,
   polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis,
   rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever,
   rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola,
   scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat,
   shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox,
   snail fever, splenic fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus,
   thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia,
   typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever,
   vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery,
   whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster