typhoid fever
noun
: a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)
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Showers are being postponed, and children with only dirty water to drink are being hospitalized with typhoid fever.
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Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Mallon was arrested as a public health threat in 1907 after being identified as the source of seven household outbreaks of typhoid fever since 1900.
—Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Robin’s mother, Ly’s first wife, had died of typhoid fever eight months after Robin was born.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
In these crowded encampments, outbreaks of dysentery, typhoid fever, and smallpox were rampant.
—Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
When the wealthy Warren family was hit by typhoid fever at a summer countryside retreat in 1906, there was no obvious explanation.
—Bessie Yuill, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2020
His grandmother had raised him in Missouri after his mother died of typhoid fever.
—Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
During the typhoid fever outbreak in the early 1900s, an asymptomatic cook famously infected between roughly 50 and 120 people.
—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
But the reunion took a tragic turn when his favorite child, 9-year-old Willie, fell sick and died of typhoid fever.
—Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 29 June 2023
Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Mallon was arrested as a public health threat in 1907 after being identified as the source of seven household outbreaks of typhoid fever since 1900.
—Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Robin’s mother, Ly’s first wife, had died of typhoid fever eight months after Robin was born.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
In these crowded encampments, outbreaks of dysentery, typhoid fever, and smallpox were rampant.
—Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
When the wealthy Warren family was hit by typhoid fever at a summer countryside retreat in 1906, there was no obvious explanation.
—Bessie Yuill, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2020
His grandmother had raised him in Missouri after his mother died of typhoid fever.
—Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
During the typhoid fever outbreak in the early 1900s, an asymptomatic cook famously infected between roughly 50 and 120 people.
—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
But the reunion took a tragic turn when his favorite child, 9-year-old Willie, fell sick and died of typhoid fever.
—Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 29 June 2023
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