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Viral hemorrhagic fevers
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Background
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) refer to a group of illnesses characterized by fever and hemorrhage
- Caused by four distinct families of RNA viruses[1]
- Filoviridae
- Flaviviridae
- Bunyaviridae
- Arenaviridae
VFHs Communicable by Person-to-Person Spread
Differential Diagnosis
Fever in traveler
- Normal causes of acute fever!
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Leptospirosis
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Chikungunya
- Yellow fever
- Rift Valley Fever
- Q fever
- Amebiasis
- Zika virus
Bioterrorism Agents[2]
Category A
Category B
- Ricin
- Brucellosis
- Epsilon toxin
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever
- Staph enterotoxin B
- Typhus
- Glanders
- Melioidosis
- Food safety threats
- Water safety threats
- Viral encephalitis
Category C
- Influenza
- Yellow fever
- Tickborne hemorrhagic fever
- Tickborne encephalitis
See Also
References
- ↑ Martines RB, Ng DL, Greer PW, Rollin PE, Zaki SR. Tissue and cellular tropism, pathology and pathogenesis of Ebola and Marburg viruses. J Pathol. 2015 Jan;235(2):153-74. doi: 10.1002/path.4456.
- ↑ https://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/biodefenserelated/biodefense/pages/cata.aspx Accessed 02/26/16
Authors
Ross Donaldson, Michael Holtz, Daniel Ostermayer, Kurt Hansen
