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Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fevers: Neglected Tropical Diseases?

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) and Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) are rare viral diseases, endemic to central Africa. The overall burden of EHF and MHF is small in comparison to the more common protozoan, helminth, and bacterial diseases typically referred to as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
Pierre E Rollin, Adam MacNeil
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever [PDF]

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Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is one of numerous Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. It is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).Ebola HF is caused by infection with a virus of the genus ...
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[Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever)].

Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology, 2019
The Ebola virus is a single-stranded negative sense RNA virus belonging to the filovirus family. The Ebo- ]a virus causes Ebola virus disease (EVD). EVD is characterized by fever and malaise, muscle pain, and abnormal blood clotting. The mortality rate associated with EVD is very high, at 88%.
Katsunori, Yanagihara   +4 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in 2014: The Tale of an Evolving Epidemic

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2014
That a patient with Ebola could travel to the United States has created unprecedented media coverage and widespread concern.
Carlos, Del Rio   +3 more
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Comparative Pathogenesis of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

2007
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus has been called “the Asian Ebola virus” – an epithet that recognizes the close clinical resemblance of CCHF and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), and also suggests that the two illnesses share similar underlying mechanisms [38]. CCHF and EHF both present difficult challenges to pathophysiology research, because
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Other viral bioweapons: Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever

Dermatologic Clinics, 2004
The term viral hemorrhagic fever refers to a clinical syndrome characterized by acute onset of fever accompanied by nonspecific findings of malaise, prostration, diarrhea,and headache. Patients frequently show signs of increased vascular permeability, and many develop bleeding diatheses.
Michelle R, Salvaggio, John W, Baddley
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the era of bioterrorism.

Seminars in respiratory infections, 2003
Viral hemorrhagic fevers are among a small group of infectious diseases considered potential candidates for use as agents of bioterrorism. Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the focus of this article, has the highest mortality rate of the viral hemorrhagic fevers and has no effective treatment.
Andrea, Polesky, Gulshan, Bhatia
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[Viral hemorrhagic fever--Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Marburg disease and Lassa fever].

Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology, 1998
Viral hemorrhagic fevers include Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Marburg disease and Lassa fever. The etiologic agents of the diseases, Ebola virus, Marburg virus and Lassa virus, respectively, are categorized as viruses with biosafety level 4, because of their high mortality, high transmissibility and the lack of effective vaccines and therapeutic measures ...
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever/Ebola virus disease - Marburg disease - Lassa fever.

Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine, 2019
Ebola virus disease, Marburg disease, and Lassa fever are viral hemorrhagic fevers with similar clinical manifestations. Given the recent expanding movement of people around the world, persons infected with any of these hemorrhagic fever viruses might develop symp- toms in Japan. Clinicians should be aware of the latest situation once viral hemorrhagic
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