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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Famine and a typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919-20.
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Fiabhras dubh, typhus , the black fever.
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Helen Burns could not come walking with me, because she was ill, not with typhus but with tuberculosis.
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In the final camp, Allach, typhus struck Greenspun, Regina and Bela.
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Life is easier, until a typhus epidemic sweeps the school.
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Louse-borne typhus has killed more people than have died in warfare.
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My own father died of typhus in that war.
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She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 1868.