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Fever, so ends in beauty sleep, blanketed (6)

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I believe the answer is:

typhus

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'fever' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for typhus that I've seen before include "Acute, infectious fever" , "Disease found in spy hut, strangely" , "Infectious disease with fever and purple rash" , "Infectious disease transmitted by lice" , "Disease causing high fever and skin rash" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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