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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Others contend he was poisoned by his viceroy Antipater, while more modern conjectures propose the weary conqueror had picked up typhoid fever or meningitis or was done in by his over-use of the medicine hellebore, then prescribed as a purgative as well as for gout and signs of insanity.
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John Mariani, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Flies do spread germs that cause diseases like dysentery, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, food poisoning, and cholera.1 Because of this, discard any food flies have come in contact with.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Doctors, fearing life-threatening typhoid fever would spread from contaminated floodwaters, went around Louisville giving immunizations to thousands.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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John Mariani, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Flies do spread germs that cause diseases like dysentery, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, food poisoning, and cholera.1 Because of this, discard any food flies have come in contact with.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Doctors, fearing life-threatening typhoid fever would spread from contaminated floodwaters, went around Louisville giving immunizations to thousands.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Typhoid fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typhoid%20fever. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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