Carrión's disease

noun

Car·​ri·​ón's disease ˌkar-ē-ˈȯnz- 

variants or Carrion's disease

: bartonellosis of humans that occurs in South America, is characterized by severe anemia and high fever followed by an eruption like warts on the skin, and is caused by a bacterium of the genus Bartonella (B. bacilliformis) that invades the red blood cells and is transmitted by sand flies (genus Phlebotomus)