See Also: Haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
Brazilian haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
haemorrhagic fever, crimean(medicine)
Korean haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
haemorrhagic fever virus(medicine)
haemorrhagic fever, american(medicine)
Ebola haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
epidemic haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
Far East haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
Omsk haemorrhagic fever(medicine)

Haemorrhagic fever (medicine)


haemorrhagic fever


A syndrome that occurs in perhaps 20-40% of infections by a number of different viruses of the families Arenaviridae (Lassa fever, Bolivian haemorrhagic fever, Argentinean haemorrhagic fever), Bunyaviridae (Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever), Flaviviridae (Dengue haemorrhagic fever, Omsk haemorrhagic fever), Filoviridae (Ebola fever, Marburg virus disease), etc. Some types of haemorrhagic fever are tick-borne, others mosquito-borne, and some seem to be zoonoses; clinical manifestations are high fever, scattered petechiae, gastrointestinal tract and other organ bleeding, hypotension, and shock; kidney damage may be severe, especially in Korean haemorrhagic fever and neurologic signs may appear, especially in the Argentinean-Bolivian types. Five types of haemorrhagic fever are transmissible person-to-person: Bolivian haemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Ebola fever, Marburg virus disease, and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever.

See: epidemic haemorrhagic fever.

Synonym: Ebola haemorrhagic fever.