Converse of object

• relapse: Tick-borne relapsing fever in west USA and west Canada.

• swamp: He was actively involved in the running of the colony but died of swamp fever later the same year.

• rage: Next morning the poor man was smitten with a raging fever.

Adjective modifier

• glandular: The hospital laboratory can diagnose glandular fever by testing a blood sample from a patient.

• typhoid: The Prince is believed to have died of typhoid fever.

• scarlet: A young boy of six, I was recovering from scarlet fever.

• rheumatic: He died suddenly of rheumatic fever at the age of 45.

• haemorrhagic: Dengue fever NEW March 2003 Covers the effects of supportive treatments for dengue haemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome in children.

• enteric: Disease accounted for 127 men of the 1st Battalion, with a predominant cause being enteric fever ( typhoid ).

Modifies a noun

• vaccination: You must also have evidence of a yellow fever vaccination.

• sufferer: Pollen counts are taken during the summer months to warn hay fever sufferers of high levels.

• pitch: The poll tax raised awareness of local taxation to fever pitch for a few years.

• grip: MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Sudoku fever grips UK newspaper readers Guardian Unlimited Web.

• epidemic: Later in 1878, a yellow fever epidemic in the south enabled homeopaths to cure many more.

Noun used with modifier

• hay: The hay fever season is a common time for asthma to get worse.

• dengue: Health experts have known about dengue fever for more than 200 years.

• swine: What should you do if you suspect swine fever?

• typhus: The workhouse was greatly overcrowded, food was short, sanitation was poor, and diseases such as typhus fever and dysentery were widespread.

• Lassa: Freddie de Young ( Lazar Rodic ) A very taxing role - the corpse of the lassa fever contact ( 393 ).

• low-grade: No fever, or only low-grade fever may be present.