How to Use typhoid fever in a Sentence

typhoid fever

noun
  • The area was also hit by an outbreak of typhoid fever two years ago.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Anne Shirley was a baby when her parents died from typhoid fever.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Outbreaks of typhoid fever and measles took a tremendous toll on the soldiers.
    — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Stephen and his fellow laborers flee, but he is slowed down by dysentery and typhoid fever.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
  • Abigail died of typhoid fever eight years before John Adams died.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • Robin’s mother, Ly’s first wife, had died of typhoid fever eight months after Robin was born.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Syphilis does well in winter in China, but typhoid fever spikes there in July.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • His grandmother had raised him in Missouri after his mother died of typhoid fever.
    — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Many common illnesses such as influenza, malaria or typhoid fever can have the same symptoms.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Surprisingly swoony for having so many men graphically die of typhoid fever!
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Abraham Lincoln's third son, Willie, died at the White House, likely of typhoid fever.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
  • It was also hit by an epidemic of typhoid fever two years ago, and there is currently a resurgence of seasonal flu across the country.
    — Jean-Yves Kamale and Monika Pronczuk, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In these crowded encampments, outbreaks of dysentery, typhoid fever, and smallpox were rampant.
    — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Park believes North Korea is probably dealing with an outbreak of typhoid fever or cholera.
    — Paula Hancocks, CNN, 5 July 2022
  • Abalone, aged 12 years, three months and three days, daughter of Olof Johnson of Greenleaf, died of typhoid fever.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Andrew Johnson was the vice president who slurred his inaugural oath after turning to whiskey to ease typhoid fever pain.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Showers are being postponed, and children with only dirty water to drink are being hospitalized with typhoid fever.
    — Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
  • 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 illness is treated with antibiotics; if left untreated, typhoid fever can cause complications that can be fatal.
    — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 30 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • As Thompson explains, Willie contracted typhoid fever and died while Abraham was president.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • In Equatorial Guinea, deportees are held under armed guard at a remote hotel; some have contracted typhoid fever.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 26 May 2026
  • 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

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