fever
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Just this month, tularemia, also known as rabbit fever and caused by a bacterium in ticks and deer flies, was detected in people living on Long Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
People who contract salmonella often experience diarrhea, cramping and fever for about a week.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Ebola is spread by contact with bodily fluids and causes a haemorrhagic fever.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Health Minister Roger Kamba said screening was being carried out as a precautionary measure after a passenger with fever and diarrhoea, who had got off at an earlier stop, had died in hospital.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“She does have a small fever, and I do hear something in her lungs,” he said.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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"There was no fevers, no headaches, absolutely nothing. It came from nowhere."
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
"Given the scale, we are thinking that it has started probably a couple of months ago," Anais Legand, WHO technical officer on viral haemorrhagic fevers, told reporters in Geneva.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Health officials say the sick passengers have symptoms like fevers along with gastrointestinal and respiratory issues.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
There was Kent Brantly, 27, a family physician who, owing to the grueling hours and oppressive African heat, had lost 30 pounds even before he succumbed to hemorrhagic fevers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
So it made sense to Rush, Hodge, and Foulke that the putrid-smelling air could upset people enough to cause an outbreak of violent, fatal fevers.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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