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
Captain Horton had taken the jungle fever, and in an hour he was strapped down upon a litter, raving with delirium.
From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson
This young man's hopeful career was early arrested by his love of science, for he died of jungle fever in Bengal, caught while in search of plants.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville
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