trench fever
noun
: a disease that is usually marked by fever and pain in muscles, bones, and joints and that is caused by a bacterium (Bartonella quintana synonym Rochalimaea quintana) transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
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These diseases are trench fever, epidemic typhus, and louse-borne relapsing fever.54
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Body lice are tiny insects that live in bedding and clothes and feed on human blood.
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Josephine Hessert, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
Body lice, which feed on your blood and nothing else, spread many diseases, including typhus and trench fever.
—Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
Infectious diseases ran rampant during World War I, with ailments ranging from influenza to trench fever, meningitis and pneumonia plaguing soldiers stationed on the frontlines.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
An estimated 380,000 to 520,000 British soldiers contracted trench fever during World War I.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
The most recent addition to the author’s oeuvre, The Fall of Gondolin, was published in August 2018 but originally written more than a century earlier, when Tolkien was recovering from trench fever in 1917.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
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
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Josephine Hessert, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
Body lice, which feed on your blood and nothing else, spread many diseases, including typhus and trench fever.
—Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
Infectious diseases ran rampant during World War I, with ailments ranging from influenza to trench fever, meningitis and pneumonia plaguing soldiers stationed on the frontlines.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
An estimated 380,000 to 520,000 British soldiers contracted trench fever during World War I.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
The most recent addition to the author’s oeuvre, The Fall of Gondolin, was published in August 2018 but originally written more than a century earlier, when Tolkien was recovering from trench fever in 1917.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
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
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trench fever
noun
: a disease that is usually marked by fever and pain in muscles, bones, and joints and that is caused by a bacterium (Bartonella quintana synonym Rochalimaea quintana) transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
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