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black fever
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W Visceral leishmaniasis
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About half a million people worldwide are infected annually with visceral leishmaniasis (pronounced leesh-ma-NIGH-a-sis, also known as kala azar or black fever), with about half of the cases in India.
The faux frontier town conjures the lore of the Old West in movie sets and stage shows featuring quack doctors, dancing saloon gals, showdown stunts and lots of corny jokes ( "This elixir cures yellow fever, scarlet fever, black fever, even that Saturday Night Fever").
Pigments from ruptured blood cells can turn the skin dark, hence the name "black fever".
Visceral leishmaniasis is also called kala-azar, a Hindi term meaning "black fever".
In the most dangerous manifestation, called visceral leishmaniasis (or black fever), parasites attack the liver, spleen and bone marrow.
Visceral leishmaniasis, the most severe form of the disease, is also known as "kala azar", "black fever" or "dumdum fever".
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It is noteworthy however that, while black water fever in adults from hyper-endemic malaria regions is uncommon, acute renal impairment in Lassa fever patients is not [ 21].
Alex Baldock, group chief executive of Shop Direct, the owner of the Littlewoods and Very brands, said the company had already begun talks with suppliers about this year's event as he expected another step up in Black Friday fever.
He was managed as a case of acute renal failure due to black water fever (severe Falciparum malaria).
A confirmation of malaria and a developing renal impairment in the two imported cases may have informed the diagnosis of black water fever.
Other diseases that Koch investigated in Italy, South Africa, India, and Indonesia included malaria, black water fever (etiologically related to malaria), plague, rinderpest, and trypanosomiasis.
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