How to Use typhus in a Sentence

typhus

noun
  • This isn’t the first time typhus has gripped Texas.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Women who had the telltale typhus spots were hustled off to the gas chambers.
    — National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But most patients don’t notice a flea bite before catching typhus.
    — Don Sweeney april 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That same day, the Nazis took steps to clear the camp of prisoners infected with typhus.
    — National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Enteric fever is also like typhus in that it is spread by lice and shares similar symptoms.
    — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
  • People also can catch typhus by breathing in flea dirt or rubbing it into their eyes, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney april 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • What are the complications of typhus?
    — Don Sweeney april 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • One city employee was diagnosed with typhus, a disease that can be spread by rodents.
    — Mark Puente, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Sick with typhus, she was sent to Sweden to recover, and then went to Belgium to live with an aunt.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Pilecki survived typhus and many, many random selections for killing.
    — Neal Bascomb, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • At the least, the air would have been less toxic, and there might have been lower mortality rates from scurvy, dysentery and typhus.
    — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Its symptoms are similar to typhus, except the rash starts at the extremities and moves to the trunk.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • Both the First and the Second World Wars produced typhus epidemics.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • At the time of his deliverance, Repp was sick with typhus and weighed 69 pounds, and most of his family was no longer alive.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Epidemic typhus, however, can be spread from person-to-person.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Testing for typhus can take weeks, so treatment is usually started before results are available.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • They are known to be reservoirs for such threats to humans as hantavirus, typhus and the bacterium responsible for bubonic plague.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • But whereas body lice can spread diseases, including epidemic typhus, trench fever and even the plague, head lice have never been blamed for any such outbreak.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • When Jane is ten or eleven, typhus runs rampant at Lowood, the charity school to which she has been consigned by her aunt, who despises her.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2020
  • That same month, health officials warned the public of a typhus outbreak in downtown Los Angeles.
    — Bill Quirk, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
  • In the book, Jim dies from typhus shortly after the Streetcar Strike of 1900.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.
    — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The hope was that typhus, malnutrition and starvation would relieve the Nazis of the necessity of face-to-face murder.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • In Southern California, fleas are known for infecting people with typhus fever.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Frank died of typhus in early 1945 at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp.
    — Zach Kyle and Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
  • For the 10-day trip to Kenya, the family had to be immunized for yellow fever, typhus and malaria and cover all their own expenses.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Researchers have long thought that the disease typhus played a role, but modern DNA analysis paints a different picture.
    — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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