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(see PMID 23402997 and PMID 22931368)Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream (hemolysis) releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine frequently leading to kidney failure. The disease was first linked to malaria by the Sierra Leonean physician Dr John Farrell Easmon in his 1884 pamphlet entitled The Nature and Treatment of Blackwater Fever.