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Meanings of jail fever in English
Group of infectious diseases.
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Examples for "typhus"
Examples for "typhus"
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The scourge of typhus in Serbia is a recent and graphic illustration.
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Background: Before 1986, scrub typhus was only found endemic in southern China.
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Prison typhus, which had spread through the city, increased the general dread.
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The symptoms may be similar to those of Measles or Abdominal typhus.
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His father stopped him, convinced that the delirium of typhus had returned.
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It was the last; he never came back again; he died of ship fever.
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No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage.
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They had all had ship fever, and a more wretched looking family I had never seen.
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Also called jail, camp, hospital, or ship fever.
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Why I heard that the ship fever was raging here-thatthe hospitals were crowded, and many of your doctors sick!
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The essence of my strain of prison fever wasn't mysterious, just persistent.
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The principal physical disabilities are prison fever, colds, pneumonia, lung diseases and rheumatism.
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Is there a danger of prison fever, sergeant?
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The next day this poor convict was taken with the prison fever, and in one short week he was a corpse.
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When I left France to follow Lafayette I never dreamed that I might die of prison fever in a hole like this.
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Will make some man a jewel of a wife, if she don't go mad, or die of the hospital fever.
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We weren't afraid of the famine fever in the old times.
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Shame?-Isit not a famine fever which never comes near a well-ladentable?
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The " famine fever" carried away multitudes to an untimely grave.
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They illustrate the fact that Nature, even when perverted by generations of famine fever, ignores the distinctions we set up between men.
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Such a unique triple disaster of AIDS, famine , and famine fevers requires new thinking.
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We herein report an imported case of murine typhus caused by Rickettsia typhi in Mexico City.
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The symptoms, effectiveness of tetracycline, and presence of a large rat population raised the suspicion of murine typhus.
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This first reported outbreak of murine typhus in Thailand is notable for its occurrence in a new human settlement only 8 months after construction.
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Murine typhus is endemic in several countries.
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A striking example of this was the experience of Serbia with typhus fever.
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The younger sister was taken very ill with the typhus fever.
3
In one basement lay a solitary old man, ill with the typhus fever.
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I have been dissecting that peasant who died of typhus fever.
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The Government don't get typhus fever in the tropics, does it?
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The petechial fever in Italy in 1505 was a form of the sweating sickness.
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It may also complicate some general diseases, especially infectious diseases, as anthrax, influenza, rabies, or petechial fever.
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It is said that in 1524 a petechial fever carried off 50,000 people in Milan, and possibly this was the same disease.
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Background: Completed genome sequences are rapidly increasing for Rickettsia, obligate intracellular alpha-proteobacteria responsible for various human diseases, including epidemic typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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His disease was a putrid fever, and the apothecary had bled him repeatedly.
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His mistress had died, the day before, of a putrid fever.
3
Cowardice is catching and will run through an army like the putrid fever.'
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A kind of putrid fever broke out, which attacked people of all races alike.
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The Squire sickened of a putrid fever; and Madam caught it in nursing him, and died.
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The percentage of those who die from camp fever has been reduced to a minimum.
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The years in the desert, and her recent bout with camp fever, had aged her to a frightening degree.
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She had been struck by the potentially deadly camp fever and had been fading in and out of consciousness for the past hour.
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What were then known as camp fevers had already broken out in August.
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The lake Indians had suffered severely from the war, chiefly from the camp fevers and irregularities.
Usage of jail fever in English
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There is an outbreak on the hulks-itsounds like jail fever.
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Lord Bacon declared the jail fever "the most pernicious infection next to the plague."
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He had caught the jail fever, which had long raged in the Carcel de la Corte, where I was imprisoned.
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"I understood that he died of a jail fever, caught at the Assizes, where he was serving on-whatdo you call it?"