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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Cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever are no longer health burdens in the U.S. thanks to a robust water treatment system.
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Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Andrew Johnson was the vice president who slurred his inaugural oath after turning to whiskey to ease typhoid fever pain.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
It was used to treat Louisa May Alcott’s typhoid fever and Abraham Lincoln’s depression.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Unpasteurized milk has caused plenty of other dangerous diseases in the past, including bovine tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
—Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Andrew Johnson was the vice president who slurred his inaugural oath after turning to whiskey to ease typhoid fever pain.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
It was used to treat Louisa May Alcott’s typhoid fever and Abraham Lincoln’s depression.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Unpasteurized milk has caused plenty of other dangerous diseases in the past, including bovine tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
—Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Typhoid fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typhoid%20fever. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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