Definition of "typhus fever" []

• Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Before passing to the other topics with which, as the Bishop said, he could again be occupied, here is Mr. Codrington's account of this period of trouble: ” 'A great break in the first year was caused by the visitation of typhus fever in the earlier part of 1868."
• "When the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence; but not till its virulence and the number of its victims had drawn public attention on the school."