What Is Black Fever?
Black fever, which is also known as leishmaniasis, is a parasitic disease transmitted to humans through the bite of the sand fly. Only female sand flies can transmit the leishmania parasites to people, and in addition to black fever, the organisms can cause a large variety of different infections, including an illness involving severe skin lesions. If infected individuals aren’t given any treatment, black fever is usually fatal. The disease is generally more common among poorer populations of the world, especially in countries where modern medicine is generally harder to come by.
