Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is a syndrome seen in diseases of varying severity which occur from the Far East across to Western Europe. The most common diseases in the Far East are Korean haemorrhagic fever and epidemic haemorrhagic fever, which are characterised by fever, muscular pains, haemorrhagic manifestations, and proteinuria; the complications of shock and renal failure may le...

The recent outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo has put the filovirus threat back on the international health agenda. This paper gives an overview of Marburg and Ebola outbreaks so far observed and puts them in a public health perspective. Damage on the local level has been devastating at times, but was marginal on the international level despite the consid...

Epidemic of Ebola hemorrhagic fever which appeared in the countries of West Africa in 2014, is the largest outbreak which occurred so far. The virus causing this epidemic, Zaire Ebolavirus (ZEBOV), along with four other species of Ebolaviruses is classified to the genus Ebolavirus in the family Filoviridae. ZEBOV is one of the most virulent pathogens among the viral haemorrhagic fevers, and cas...

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a life-threatening haemorrhagic fever in humans. Even though there are many reports on EVD, the protein precursor functions and virulent factors of ebolaviruses remain poorly understood. Comparative analyses of Ebolavirus genomes will help in the identification of these important features. This prompted us to develop the Ebolavirus Database (EDB) and we have provide...

INTRODUCTION Dengue haemorrhagic fever is known for its haemorrhagic and neurologic complications. Neurologic complications are caused by three mechanism namely neurotropism, systemic complications causing encephalopathy and postinfectious immune-mediated mechanisms. However acute compressive neuropathy due to haemorrhage is not frequent and we could find no literature describing this. CASE R...

Ebola virus disease (EVD), previously named as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is often a highly fatal illness (1). The disease occurs in outbreaks mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and the largest of the outbreaks is the ongoing 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. The disease has a mortality rate of upto 90% and so far 1711 cases & 932 deaths (till 6 Aug, 2014) have been reported in four African countries (...

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) was first reported in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever centered in Yambuku (near the Ebola river), Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Nzara, Sudan. The current outbreak of the Ebola virus was started by reporting the first case in March 2014 in the forest regions of southeastern Guinea. Due to infection rates raising over 13,000...