Meanings of contract typhoid in English

To contract typhoid was for him a virtual death-warrant.

I may add, also, that it is well known that stout people do very poorly when they contract typhoid, especially if they are old.

Poor Fred contracted typhoid fever and died during his third year.

Yes,' he sighed; 'she contracted typhoid fever in Paris.

Freddie joined the Polish army in Tashkent, contracted typhoid, got discharged and joined the Polish navy in 1942.

He contracted typhoid fever, lingered for a while and died September 24, 1835.

Formerly, the proportion of deaths among these who contracted typhoid fever reached twenty and thirty per cent and even higher.

He says warders contracted typhoid and malaria after having to work 12-hour shifts in appalling conditions at the prison's mosquito-ridden facilities.

They had been travelling on the Continent, and there had both contracted typhoid fever, which showed itself immediately on their home-coming.

I must add that three of our nurses have contracted typhoid fever; none of them was inoculated; twenty who were inoculated caught nothing.