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
  • When the wealthy Warren family was hit by typhoid fever at a summer countryside retreat in 1906, there was no obvious explanation.
    Bessie Yuill, Discover Magazine, 2 July 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

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