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
The doctor took great pains in diagnosing my case, which he called something between a gastric and jungle fever, and prescribed five grains of calomel every night.
From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)
