Adding to the political turmoil in Philadelphia, a virulent yellow fever epidemic hit the city that summer.

On Poritrin, the virulent fever raced through the mudflats and docks where slaves made their dreary homes.

Pons shivered, as if he felt the first flush of a virulent fever.

He combined with this the charge of the prisoners of war at Chatham, among whom a virulent fever was raging.

Carbuncles developed on his back and he was plagued by a virulent fever.

During this stay, large numbers of the crew of each ship were stricken by a virulent fever.

Fichte's wife devoted herself to nursing and caught a virulent fever.

In 1856, within five weeks, five of their children died due to virulent scarlet fever.

Even the natives are decimated at certain seasons by the most virulent fevers and dysentery.

Widowed now for four years, after Gruffydd had died of some sudden, virulent fever, she.