marsh fever

noun

1. another name for malaria

Example Sentences

One such disease was “marsh fever,” later known as malaria, carried by Sheppey’s swamp-bred mosquitoes.

From Reuters

The company was founded in 1982 and its first community production which toured village halls was Marsh Fever, which was about the East Anglian "ghost dog" Black Shuck.

From BBC

In 1809 the British expedition to Welchereen failed in the Netherlands through marsh fever.

From Project Gutenberg

Similar conditions are occasionally met with in certain parts of Europe where swamp and uncultivated land are exposed to the influences of a high temperature, of which examples enough are furnished in the malaria of Italy, and the marsh fever of the lagoons of Venice and along the coasts of Istria.

From Project Gutenberg

A marsh fever, and a very bad one.

From Project Gutenberg