jungle fever
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Welsh, a Purple Heart recipient, was wounded twice and survived both malaria and a jungle fever in three island campaigns.
From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2020
His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once again, like a recurring jungle fever, Viet Nam forced itself to the front of the nation's consciousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Tigers are pests enough,” said the doctor, “but intermittent or jungle fever is to my mind the pest of the country.”
From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.
Our friends, who were old residents, shook their heads knowingly, and prophesied sunstroke or jungle fever; but we went sight-seeing continually, filled our specimen baskets, and escaped both fever and sunstroke.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
