"Tapanuli Fever", supposedly in Victorian times known as the "Black Formosa Corruption", was a "very rare" condition made up by Owen Harper to describe the symptoms of Marianne Till.
Owen told Marianne that the fever was endemic to a few small regions of South America, including Argentina. He compared it to Ebola. (PROSE: Slow Decay)
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In the real world, Tapanuli Fever is a creation of Arthur Conan Doyle which appears in the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Dying Detective.