Ebola and other viral haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola and other viral haemorrhagic fevers.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest and most complicated that the world has even seen. Since it was first identified in the forested regions of south eastern Guinea in March, it has spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria and has now been declared a “public health emergency of international concern” by the World Health Organization. Ebola virus is one of a group of zoo...

Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers

This book is a small volume in the series “Perspectives in Medical Virology.” It seeks to provide an overview of all of the viruses that have been associated with hemorrhagic disease. The chapters cover epidemiology, clinical disease, immunology and pathology, molecular virology, diagnosis, and all other aspects of the science and threat to public health of a disparate group of viral infections...

Management and control of viral haemorrhagic fevers.

Viral haemorrhagic fevers in South Africa.

Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) include a diverse array of diseases caused by a broad range of viruses transmitted from various animal hosts and originating from almost all the continents in the world. These are potentially fatal and highly transmissible diseases without specific treatments or prophylactic vaccines. As has been demonstrated during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Afric...

Special Features Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers — Perspectives in Medical

Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are severe clinical syndromes of humans, often resulting in extraordinarily high lethality. The diseases are characterized by initial influenza-like symptoms followed by varying degrees of capillaropathy, consumption of blood clotting factors with occasional hemorrhages from mucous membranes, and terminal multiorgan failure. VHF outbreaks are observed in distinct...