come down with

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Animals that catch it typically come down with a high temperature before developing blisters, usually around the mouth or feet.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

While adults catch on average between three to four colds a year, kids can come down with four or more every year.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

And in just the last 30 days, 23 commercial poultry farms in California have come down with the virus — affecting more than 5.6 million birds.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

More than 3 years earlier, in the summer of 2020, Hayden had come down with COVID-19 while visiting family in Colorado.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2024

Ninety percent oX the people who come down with Ebola Zaire died of it.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston