An acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Examples for "black vomit "
Examples for "black vomit "
1 Concerning his death, no one could doubt the cause being black vomit .
2 She was free of the grinding gears, beyond the black vomit of urban architecture.
3 The awful black vomit soon set in.
4 The yellow fever, or black vomit , at Vera Cruz, scarcely carries off the sick with so alarming a rapidity.
5 He arrived in Havana on Tuesday, and on the Friday following he was buried, having died of the black vomit .
1 The thought occurred to him that it might be the yellow fever .
2 Roderick St. Jean, the eldest son, died of yellow fever in 1890.
3 While calling at Barbadoes the young mother had caught the yellow fever .
4 He made a trip down the coast and died of yellow fever .
5 On account of the prevalence of yellow fever , prudence forbade my landing.
1 A lot of the boys in my company died of yellow jack .
2 Frightened maybe, because mutiny was as much feared as yellow jack .
3 The boys fear yellow jack like a rattlesnake.
4 It's worse than the yellow jack .
5 That fever, " yellow jack " as we used to call it, is truly one of the most dreadful scourges of the West Indies.
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