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
Once again, like a recurring jungle fever, Viet Nam forced itself to the front of the nation's consciousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If the conversation happens to turn on jungle fever, or any subject like that, down goes her thumb instantly, and she clasps her fist over it with a convulsive squeeze.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
I feel just as I did when I was laid up with a bad attack of jungle fever in India.
From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)