How to Use typhoid fever in a Sentence

typhoid fever

noun

• Outbreaks of typhoid fever and measles took a tremendous toll on the soldiers.
  — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Aug. 2020
• But the brothers’ momentum came to an abrupt halt when Wilbur came down with typhoid fever in 1912.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• But the reunion took a tragic turn when his favorite child, 9-year-old Willie, fell sick and died of typhoid fever.
  — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 29 June 2023
• The gesture was a tribute to their only son, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
• Abraham Lincoln's third son, Willie, died at the White House, likely of typhoid fever.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• Syphilis does well in winter in China, but typhoid fever spikes there in July.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2020
• She’s buried beside her mother, Mary Blewett Matthews, who died of typhoid fever 11 years before Alice.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• The first report listed ways to prevent typhoid fever, which was on the decline in 1924 but far from eradicated.
  — Kevin Leonard, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2021
• The results, published in the Lancet last year, showed the vaccine to be 87 percent effective in preventing typhoid fever.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• The testimony included a description of how typhoid fever had spread among the camp’s inmates starting in the fall of 1944.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
• His grandmother had raised him in Missouri after his mother died of typhoid fever.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• Wastewater surveillance dates to the 1940s, when researchers used it to find carriers of the bacteria that cause typhoid fever or to detect polio.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
• During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died—ten times more from typhus, cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery than from battle wounds.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• Park believes North Korea is probably dealing with an outbreak of typhoid fever or cholera.
  — Paula Hancocks, CNN, 5 July 2022
• After getting abducted to try and cure a ship filled with men battling typhoid fever, Claire got to work during Sunday's installment of the Starz genre drama and found the source of the infection.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2017
• Barton led the agency for the next 23 years, aiding countless victims of floods, hurricanes, tidal waves and typhoid fever, as well as those wounded in the Spanish-American War.
  — Kate Bolick, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
• Many common illnesses such as influenza, malaria or typhoid fever can have the same symptoms.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2021
• This scenic style emerged in the early 19th century, when overcrowding in small urban burial grounds was linked to outbreaks of diseases including typhoid fever and cholera.
  — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• During the Spanish-American war of 1898, there was a huge typhoid fever outbreak that the illustrious Walter Reed was called in to investigate.
  — National Geographic, 19 June 2016
• Mining camps and boomtowns were cesspools rife with cholera, meningitis, typhoid fever, venereal diseases and scurvy, among many other maladies.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
• As Thompson explains, Willie contracted typhoid fever and died while Abraham was president.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023
• Some troops were suffering from malaria, typhoid fever, or smallpox, so their superiors had moved many of them to locations that were less swampy and mosquito-ridden.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
• The illness is treated with antibiotics; if left untreated, typhoid fever can cause complications that can be fatal.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 30 Dec. 2019
• Albert's physician, Dr. William Jenner, was particularly well-known for his study of typhoid fever, having overseen hundreds of cases of the disease.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
• Waterborne diseases, like typhoid fever and cholera, are extremely dangerous — but they're not transmitted by rain drops.
  — refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
• Born in 1891, to Methodist missionaries from Iowa, Albright suffered from extreme myopia—likely the result of typhoid fever in infancy—and a left hand that had been mangled in a farming accident.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• Writing in 1903, pathologists described the same phenomenon in typhoid fever.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 7 May 2020
• Free-roaming cats can also spread other diseases that are contagious to humans, including plague, tularemia, rabies and typhoid fever.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 27 June 2017
• Microorganisms carried by roaches have been linked to dysentery, diarrhea, cholera, leprosy, typhoid fever, plague and viral diseases like polio.
  — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
• Wilhelm Bendz, an anxious traveler, contracted typhoid fever in Italy.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024