"When this fever kills - how does it do so?"
In the late 1860's, yellow fever killed her husband and four children.
That fever will kill him before the night's out, if he doesn't freeze to death first.
If the fever did not kill him, thirst surely would.
The fever might have killed him anyway, even if you had stayed in Paris.
At the age of six, scarlet fever nearly killed him.
Typhoid fever killed more than 6000 settlers between 1607 and 1624.
"But the fever will surely kill him if we do nothing!"
The fever alone will kill the child before too long.
In 1878 a yellow fever epidemic struck the town and killed more than half of the 150 residents.