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

I feel just as I did when I was laid up with a bad attack of jungle fever in India.

From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

There are mountain summits clad in everlasting snow, healthful plateaus abounding in delightful scenery, and dank coast plains in which lurks the deadly jungle fever.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello