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The Times Daily Quiz: Friday August 9, 2024

The Times/The Sunday Times 09 Aug 2024
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku ... 8 Blackwater fever is a dangerous complication of which tropical disease? ... Sponsored. .
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Why pregnancy triples your chances of getting severe malaria

Vox 30 May 2024
The disease can produce severe maternal anemia, iron deficiency, or it can spread to the kidneys and the lungs and cause a condition known as blackwater fever.
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Pregnant in a warming climate: A lethal ‘double risk’ for malaria

Grist 30 May 2024
The disease can produce severe maternal anemia, iron deficiency, or it can spread to the kidneys and the lungs and cause a condition known as blackwater fever.
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Elon Musk’s Dad Says Someone at His Emerald Mine Got Eaten by a Crocodile

Futurism 22 Sep 2023
Crocod-Errol ... "Half of my colleagues were killed, all of my colleagues got malaria, yellow fever, blackwater fever, and more," Errol told the Daily Beast. "One was eaten by a crocodile on the banks of Lake Tanganyika." ... "I doubt it." ... More on the mine.
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Elon Musk’s Dad Shares Deadly Secrets of the Fabled Emerald Mine in Zambia

The Daily Beast 22 Sep 2023
Elon Musk insists the emerald mines he once boasted about never existed ... “Half of my colleagues were killed, all of my colleagues got malaria, yellow fever, blackwater fever, and more…One was eaten by a crocodile on the banks of Lake Tanganyika.” ... .
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'I had three careers: medicine, the Boy Scouts, and the Army'

Post Bulletin 24 Feb 2023
One disease that he saw while serving at the military hospital was known as blackwater fever, a serious complication of malaria that had to be treated with dialysis, which was still then still somewhat of a novel procedure.
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