typhus_fever has definitions from the field of medicine
1
[ noun ] (medicine) rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

Synonyms

typhus

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

Let us assume that it would be possible for an enemy to create an aerosol of the causative agent of epidemic typhus ( Rickettsia_prowazwki ) over City A and that a large_number of cases of typhus_fever resulted therefrom .

*