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
I am content also to believe that my fowls meekly succumb to jungle fever and cholera.
From Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Harte, Bret
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
