Definition of "typhoid fever" []

• An acute, highly infectious disease caused by a bacillus (Salmonella typhi) transmitted chiefly by contaminated food or water and characterized by high fever, headache, coughing, intestinal hemorrhaging, and rose-colored spots on the skin. Also called enteric fever. (noun)

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• "There has been and is a bad typhoid fever among the Pitcairners: want of cleanliness, no sewerage, or very bad draining, crowded rooms, no ventilation, the large drain choked up, a dry season, so that the swampy ground near the settlement has been dry, these are secondary causes."
• "In 1866 a violent outbreak of typhoid fever occurred in Noyon, decimating the town."
• "Her talent for nursing was called into requisition soon after her return to Castile when the children of the Presbyterian minister, the Rev.Mr. Hurlburt, became ill with typhoid fever and she was called to assist in caring for them."