Talk:Blackwater fever

In English please
This article is written in medical jargon and is largely incomprehensible to the layperson - and is therefore mostly useless. Stop showing off that you know all the correct terms, and show off that you understand what they actually mean by explaining them. 92.236.53.45 (talk) 14:32, 31 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The term 'black water' arose because that is the name given to effluent pumped out of a ship's heads (toilets), i.e., raw sewage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 14:22, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

why we called this disease as " Black water fever "? as xmpl, we use PKDL as related to skin infection. Cerebral malaria due to relation with brain. so, what's the reason of " Black water fever "? Rakibul Hasan (SOMC) (talk) 02:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Oluafolabi (talk) 05:28, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Very simple. One of the effects is to release haemoglobin into the urine, which makes it very dark. Hence Black-Water

Another cultural reference
In "A Message from Charity", one of the episodes of the "new" series of "Twilight Zone", a 20th century male victim of the disease manages to "telepathically" contact a much earlier (17th or thereabouts century) female victim who lived in the same area, and they have a sort of "cross-temporal" romance with much drama. The delirium aspect of the disease is very important to the plot of the story. In my POV, this was a very good episode. Old_Wombat (talk) 07:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)