typhoid fever
noun
: a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)
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Unpasteurized milk has caused plenty of other dangerous diseases in the past, including bovine tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
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Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
The area was also hit by an outbreak of typhoid fever two years ago.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
It was also hit by an epidemic of typhoid fever two years ago, and there is currently a resurgence of seasonal flu across the country.
—Jean-Yves Kamale and Monika Pronczuk, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Among the ghosts still haunting Washington, D.C.: Lincoln, who has been spotted wandering the corridors at the White House, as has his 11-year-old son, Willie, who died there in 1862 from typhoid fever.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
The area was also hit by an outbreak of typhoid fever two years ago.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
It was also hit by an epidemic of typhoid fever two years ago, and there is currently a resurgence of seasonal flu across the country.
—Jean-Yves Kamale and Monika Pronczuk, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Among the ghosts still haunting Washington, D.C.: Lincoln, who has been spotted wandering the corridors at the White House, as has his 11-year-old son, Willie, who died there in 1862 from typhoid fever.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Typhoid fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typhoid%20fever. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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