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black measles
(redirected from Black fever)

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black measles
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
A severe form of measles characterized by dark, hemorrhagic skin eruptions. Also called hemorrhagic measles.

black measles
pl n
(Medicine / Pathology) (often functioning as singular) a severe form of measles characterized by dark eruptions caused by bleeding under the skin


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But another type, known as black fever, can attack the vital organs.
The disease is also called Leishmaniose, Baghdad Boil, Dum-Dum fever, black fever, espundia or even sandfly disease.
That same year Cartier-Bresson had to leave Africa, where he had been working as a safari guide, because of a life-threatening case of black fever.
 
 
 
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