Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
What are viral hemorrhagic fevers?
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) is a term that refers to a group of illnesses caused by several distinct families of viruses.
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (including Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever)
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Medical Dictionary
Definition of medical terminology for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers.
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) refer to a group of illnesses that are caused by several distinct families of viruses.
Alternate Names : Ebola virus infection, Viral hemorrhagic fever
Definition
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe and often deadly illness that can occur in humans and in primates (monkeys, gorillas).
VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) refers to a group of illnesses caused by several distinct families of viruses.
viral hemorrhagic fevers - a term that refers to a group of illnesses caused by several distinct families of viruses.
Viral hemorrhagic fevers - a group of viral illnesses with effects that range from mild to life-threatening. The illness is caused by a virus from one of four distinct viral groups.
VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS
Viral hemorrhagic fevers are caused by 4 families of viruses.
Arenaviridae (Lassa, Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fevers) ...
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Clinical: Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis
Virus
Ebola ...
Viral hemorrhagic fevers
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Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are a group of viruses that could be used for bioterrorism. Examples of VHFs include Ebola virus, hantavirus, yellow fever, Lassa fever, and Marburg virus.
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers ... seizures
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Bell M. Viral hemorrhagic fevers. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 404.
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
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The prevention of the spread of Ebola fever involves practical viral hemorrhagic fever isolation precautions, or barrier nursing techniques.
a virus of the family Filoviridae, morphologically similar to but antigenically distinct from Marburg virus; the cause of Ebola fever (viral hemorrhagic fever). Transmission is parenteral.
Definition Yellow fever, which is also known as sylvatic fever and viral hemorrhagic fever or VHF, is a severe infectious disease caused by a type of virus called a flavivirus.
Ultimately, a condition called viral hemorrhagic fever can develop, with internal bleeding (hemorrhaging), high fever, and damage to the liver, kidneys, and circulatory system.
Ebola virus infection; Viral hemorrhagic fever
Prevention:
Avoid areas in which there are epidemics. Wear a gown, gloves, and mask around sick patients. These precautions will greatly decrease the risk of transmission.
Lassa fever, first described in 1969 in Lassa, is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever. Clinical cases were known a decade before this but were not associated with this viral pathogen.
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers ...
technical difficulties with preparing the spores in a sufficiently fine powder would probably limit actual deaths to a fraction of this number. Some other potential agents, including Yersinia pestis, Francisella tularensis, viral hemorrhagic fever ...
Viral hemorrhagic fever
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Vitamin B-1 deficiency
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 See also: Hemorrhagic Fever, Fever, Viral, Symptom, Infectious disease
  
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