Diseases

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

A group of viral diseases of diverse etiology but having many similar clinical characteristics; increased capillary permeability, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia are common to all. Hemorrhagic fevers are characterized by sudden onset, fever, headache, generalized myalgia, backache, conjunctivitis, and severe prostration, followed by various hemorrhagic symptoms. Hemorrhagic fever with kidney involvement is HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME.

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A group of viral diseases of diverse etiology but having many similar clinical characteristics; increased capillary permeability, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia are common to all. Hemorrhagic fevers are characterized by sudden onset, fever, headache, generalized myalgia, backache, conjunctivitis, and severe prostration, followed by various hemorrhagic symptoms. Hemorrhagic fever with kidney involvement is HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME.

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  • Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral
  • Fever, Viral Hemorrhagic
  • Fevers, Viral Hemorrhagic
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Viral
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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general or unspecified; prefer specifics; if renal involvement, disease is probably HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME

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History Note

78; was EPIDEMIC HEMORRHAGIC FEVER 1963-76; several specifics became headings & x-refs as of 1977

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  • specific hemorrhagic fever (1977)

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  1. C01w.925w.782.417w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006482. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006482
  2. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_fever
  3. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162272