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Trench fever   /trɛntʃ fˈivər/   Listen
Trench fever

noun
1.
Marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice.





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... the sun came out, and we managed to drain off more and more of the water from the communication trenches. But the damage had already been done—the wet followed by the cold and intense frost brought on trench fever in an acute and terrible form. One poor fellow had died of exhaustion and 142 left the Regiment in two days, some few never to recover and others to be maimed ...
— The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 • D. D. Ogilvie


Words linked to "Trench fever" :   rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis


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