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blackwater fever
noun[ U ]
medical specializeduk /ˌblæk.wɔː.tə ˈfiː.vər/ us /ˌblæk.wɑː.t̬ɚ ˈfiː.vɚ/
a severe medical condition that can affect people who have malaria(= a disease spread by mosquitoes) that causes damage to the kidneys, and dark urine because of damage to the red blood cells:
This form of malaria sometimes leads to blackwater fever, where the haemoglobin from the blood is excreted in the urine, darkening it almost to the colour of cola.
He earned his living as a hunter until he fell seriously ill with blackwater fever.
He was sent home after contracting blackwater fever.
In 1930 he travelled to Sierra Leone, where he fell seriously ill with blackwater fever.
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