jungle fever
Example Sentences
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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
His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once again, like a recurring jungle fever, Viet Nam forced itself to the front of the nation's consciousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the conversation happens to turn on jungle fever, or any subject like that, down goes her thumb instantly, and she clasps her fist over it with a convulsive squeeze.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
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
