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Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fevers

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 2001
This series is based on the Infectious Diseases section of the web site Refugee Health ∼ Immigrant Health, available on the World Wide Web at http://www.baylor.edu/Charles_Kemp/refugee_health.htm. The site was developed through a contract with the Texas Department of Health as part of an ongoing effort to improve the health of refugees and immigrants.
A, Roberts, C, Kemp
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Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2010
Ebola and Marburg viruses cause a severe viral hemorrhagic fever disease mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although outbreaks are sporadic, there is the potential for filoviruses to spread to other continents unintentionally because of air travel or intentionally because of bioterrorism.
Amy L, Hartman, Jonathan S, Towner, Stuart T, Nichol   +2 more
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The pathogenesis of Ebola hemorrhagic fever

Trends in Microbiology, 2001
Ebola virus causes lethal hemorrhagic disease in humans, yet there are still no satisfactory biological explanations to account for its extreme virulence. This review focuses on recent findings relevant to understanding the pathogenesis of Ebola virus infection and developing vaccines and effective therapy.
A, Takada, Y, Kawaoka
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Journal of Special Operations Medicine, 2014
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is an often-fatal disease caused by a virus of the Filoviridae family, genus Ebolavirus. Initial signs and symptoms of the disease are nonspecific, often progressing on to a severe hemorrhagic illness. Special Operations Forces Medical Providers should be aware of this disease, which occurs in sporadic outbreaks throughout ...
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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, Daisuke, Sasaki, Norihiko, Akamatsu, Norihito, Kaku, Kosuke, Kosai   +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, Aneesh K, Mehta, G Marshall, Lyon, Jeannette, Guarner   +3 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Tandala, Zaire, 1977-1978

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1980
Ebola virus was recovered from a nine-year-old girl who died of acute hemorrhagic fever in June 1977 at Tandala Hospital in northwestern Zaire, in the first reported recognized case of this disease since the discovery epidemics of 1976 in Zaire and Sudan.
D L, Heymann, J S, Weisfeld, P A, Webb, K M, Johnson, T, Cairns, H, Berquist   +5 more
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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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