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