jungle fever
Example Sentences
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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
In the Philippines, I heard some news that was enough to kill a well man, much less a man just out of jungle fever.
From Betty at Fort Blizzard by Seawell, Molly Elliot
This young man's hopeful career was early arrested by his love of science, for he died of jungle fever in Bengal, caught while in search of plants.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary
