Around 1830, after a deadly fever struck the community and killed 200, the remainder of the population moved away; no inhabitants remained by 1832.

A fever struck the lion, so it lived off of its reserves rather than eating other animals.

They had got no more than a day's ride north of Charleston, though, before the fever struck again.

A fever strikes the town's inhabitants, and Smith takes credit for it.

Summer, and yellow fever, as it always struck, running rampant among the newest of the immigrants.

She had been so good with the little ones when the fever struck, even deserting her garden during the emergency.

"You will recall that summer at Philadelphia, when the yellow fever struck and I nearly died?"

In 1878 a yellow fever epidemic struck the town and killed more than half of the 150 residents.

Rheumatic fever most often strikes children from 5 to 15, although military recruits are also likely victims.

Within a short time smallpox and scarlet fever struck the patients.