malaria
jungle fever informal

It was an unhealthy region and he came back with a jungle fever.

She lived five years and died of jungle fever.

However, one of the team members, Tony, experienced jungle fever and went insane.

"Jungle Fever" is most easily described as an interracial love story, though that doesn't tell the half of it.

The story picks up where the first 'Jungle Fever' ended.

In "Jungle Fever," for example, each environment had a different color scheme.

We greatly fear that this jungle yellow fever will become urbanized.

The name is a pun on the phrase, "jungle fever."

Now that Mary was home in England, she soon got over the jungle fevers.

When he was eleven, his mother had succumbed to an unknown jungle fever, dying in a small missionary hospital.