This description of fever is usually termed typhus or nerve fever. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
Humans can contract the endemic form of typhus from the bites of rat fleas. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
In man typhus is characterized by a triade of symptoms: fever, rash, nervous symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture] Reference
As one author so truly says, the history of typhus is the history of human misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech] Reference
In contrast to the smallpox virus, which cannot survive outside living human bodies, typhus is transmitted to people by insects. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
Nicolle was not long in making another important discovery: he established that the germ of typhus is not transmitted to new generations of parasites. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Director of the Bureau of Public Health in Tunis; in three years he eradicated typhus from a town where it had raged year after year since the beginning of history. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A disease of hogs that may be termed typhus-fever sometimes affects a large number of the hogs in the herd. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Russia, but typhus, which is peculiarly the disease of filth, overcrowding, and starvation, and has long been practically extinct in. From Wordnik.com. [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
If it be attended with weak pulse, it is termed typhus sensitivus, or sensitive fever with weak pulse, or typhus gravior, or putrid malignant fever. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
A series of hard winters, aggravated in some cases by diseases such as typhus, led to bread riots and general hardship. From Wordnik.com. [1716] Reference
Category B is the second highest priority diseases such as typhus fever, viral encephalitis, toxins, food safety threats and water safety threats. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonotic diseases] Reference
A series of diseases transmittable by insects, diseases such as typhus, malaria and sandfly fever claimed a large number of victims and interfered with the conduct of the War. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The plague is considered to be a severe kind of typhus, accompanied by buboes (tumors). From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The Russians will not die in thousands from diseases such as typhus, malaria, and even leprosy, and black death. From Wordnik.com. [Towards Victory] Reference
The body louse is also known to transmit lethal diseases such as typhus whereas its close relative, the head louse, does not. From Wordnik.com. [Infection Control Today Site Wide Content Feed] Reference
Had the deaths come from some filth-disease, such as typhus fever, or even from enteric or diphtheria, the sanitation of the camps might be held responsible. From Wordnik.com. [The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct] Reference
The ships in themselves were insanitary, and the crews suffered very much from what they called calentures, (or fevers such as typhus and typhoid), and the scurvy. From Wordnik.com. [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference
The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The symptoms were much like those of virulent typhus. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Owing to typhus, the former was not completely inspected. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
There is already cholera and typhus reported in the city. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
I am informed that she died of typhus fever in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
We had people dying of cholera and typhoid and typhus, starvation. From Wordnik.com. [William McDonough On Cradle-To-Cradle Design] Reference
Three million perished from typhus; five million Ukrainians starved to death. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard] Reference
In fact, she's in a death camp, dying of typhus and losing her grasp on reality. From Wordnik.com. [Neutral Milk Hotel Album Transformed For Stage] Reference
War -- blood-tracks on the snow, and cholera and typhus camps under a burning sun. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
A few years after this he died of the typhus fever, and I believe his soul went to heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
Hundreds of thousands died violent deaths or succumbed to plagues of malaria, influenza and typhus. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Mexico: In no mood for a fiesta] Reference
Crowds of refugees are already attacked by pneumonia and the germs of typhus pervade both air and water. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
But later on came the tremendous reverses, the awful typhus fever and the heroic retreat over the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
Soldiers learned to organize civil society, from rebuilding an electrical grid to stamping out a typhus epidemic. From Wordnik.com. [How America Learned To Liberate] Reference
For some time when men were dying all around with typhus fever and wounds, no clergyman of any denomination visited them. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
He was kind-a slow in his speech, and a good deal bald; his hair never came in right well after he had the typhus fever; but. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Plague and typhus are too unstable to be stored and packed into a warhead; cholera can be spread only through food and water. From Wordnik.com. [The Germ Warfare Alert] Reference
Even the course which Apis pursues, in developing its effects in the organism, is similar to the progressive development of typhus. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
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