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most likely jaundice. if his liver is not functioning properly, the liver is in charge of cleaning out your bloodstream. Since his liver is sick it can't do that right now, so his skin turns yellow due toan excess amount of"bilirubin" collecting in the whites of his eyes, his skin, his urine, etc.

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