1.   At least Super Bowl fever runs its course in a week, but this thing is dragged out for three.

2.   A Democrat running in one of the most Republican states in the nation, where anti-tax fever runs deeper than the unyielding granite bedrock?

3.   But when patriotic fever ran hot, as recently as the Vietnam era, age proved no barrier for would-be warriors.

4.   Camellia fever runs highest in the South, where the shapely winter-flowering evergreen shrubs flourish outdoors.

5.   Chess fever has been running high since Deep Blue sent world champion Garry Kasparov packing.

6.   Last week, the fever ran hot once again.

7.   Patriotic fever also runs to watches.

8.   But soccer fever is not running through the whole nation yet.

9.   That patient has almost surely died or already recovered, as Ebola fever usually runs its course in three or four weeks, Swanepoel added.