Noun
A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWar is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. Chuck Palahniuk
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases. Ferdinand Buisson
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. Charles Jules Henry Nicole
As the ship came through Port Phillip Heads in 1840, it was either typhus, spread - like the plague - by fleas, or typhoid fever, from contaminated water or food. Source: Internet
A symptom common to all forms of typhus is a fever which may reach 39 °C (102 °F). Source: Internet