jungle fever
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Welsh, a Purple Heart recipient, was wounded twice and survived both malaria and a jungle fever in three island campaigns.
From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2020
Once again, like a recurring jungle fever, Viet Nam forced itself to the front of the nation's consciousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
The doctor took great pains in diagnosing my case, which he called something between a gastric and jungle fever, and prescribed five grains of calomel every night.
From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)
The jungle fever, of which the fatal seeds had been sown at Seringapatam, attacked him after a few days.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil
