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Emergence of deadly viral haemorrhagic fever disease outbreaks in West Africa

Virulence, 2023
Recent viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) disease outbreaks caused by Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) in West Africa are unique and alarming.
Widaliz Vega-Rodriguez, Hinh Ly
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Ebolavirosis: a 2014 Review for Clinicians

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2014
Ebolavirosis, like Marburgvirosis, are African zoonosis, and for both the primary animal reservoir are bats. It is a typical acute haemorrhagic fever, characterized by a high lethality rate.
Jaime Nina
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Risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

, 2003
We conducted two antibody surveys to assess risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever in an area of confirmed Marburg virus transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Roth, Cathy, Ksiazek, T. G., Grein, Thomas, Bausch, Daniel G, Kond\ue9, Kader M., Ben Tugume, Modeste L. Libande, Pirard, Patricia, Pierre E. Rollin, Tugume, B., Colebunders, Robert, Bausch, Daniel G., Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, Olinda, L. L., Rodier, G. R., Matthias Borchert, Kondé, Kader M, Talarmin, A., Ksiazek, Thomas G, Borchert, M., Rollin, P. E., Daniel G. Bausch, Pirard, P., Bausch, D. G., Rollin, Pierre E, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Rodier, Guénaël R, Swanepoel, R., Ksiazek, Thomas G., Swanepoel, Robert, Kader M. Kondé, Campbell, P., Campbell, Patricia, Thomas Grein, Libande, Modeste L, Grein, T., Muyembe-Tamfum, J. J., Robert Colebunders, Robert Swanepoel, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Patricia Pirard, Oyewale Tomori, Patricia Campbell, Tomori, Oyewale, Cathy Roth, Loku L. Olinda, Tugume, Ben, Colebunders, R., Talarmin, Antoine, Roth, C., Libande, M. L., Bertherat, E., Libande, Modeste L., Guénaël R. Rodier, Pirad, Patricia, Olinda, Loku L., Antoine Talarmin, Kondé, K. M., Rollin, Pierre E., Eric Bertherat, Tomori, O., Borchert, Matthias, Bertherat, Eric, Olinda, Loku L, Rodier, Gu\ue9na\uebl R.   +64 more
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Serosurvey on household contacts of Marburg hemorrhagic fever patients. [PDF]

, 2006
The first major outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) outside a laboratory environment occurred in the subdistrict of Watsa, Democratic Republic of Congo, from October 1998 to August 2000.
MULANGU, S, TSHOMBA, A, Muyembe-Tamfum, J. J., Robert Swanepoel, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, LIBANDE, ML, Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, SWANEPOEL, R, Matthias Borchert, Kulidri, Amayo, Tshomba, Antoine, MUYEMBE-TAMFUM, JJ, Modeste Lifenya Libande, BORCHERT, M, Antoine Tshomba, Borchert, M., Tshomba, A., Van der Stuyft, P., Libande, M. L., Libande, Modeste Lifenya, Kulidri, A., Amayo Kulidri, Mulangu, Sabue, Mulangu, S., Sabue Mulangu, KULIDRI, A, Swanepoel, R., Patrick Van der Stuyft, Borchert, Matthias, Swanepoel, Robert   +30 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

International Journal of Infection, 2015
Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an acute hemorrhagic infectious disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). Human is infected via contacts to body fluid, secretions, and discharges from patients or infected animals. Its clinical manifestations include fever, bleeding, and multiple organ lesions. It has a high mortality rate, which is up to 50–90 %.
Yanyan Zhang, Hongjun Li, Ailin Cheng
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Preventing future pandemics and epidemics through a North-South collaboration on genomic surveillance in Africa

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022
The economy and health of the world’s population have been recurrently affected by infectious diseases since records began in the early 1900s, including large epidemic events that involved diseases such as the ‘Spanish influenza’, West Nile fever, Ebola ...
Vittorio Colizzi, Claudia Alteri, Stefano D'Amelio, Ibrahim Hassan Garba, Marta Giovanetti, Florence Komurian-Pradel, José Lourenço, Stella Mazeri, Adrian Muwonge, Carlo Federico Perno, Gianluca Russo, Daniel Mukadi-Bamuleka   +11 more
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Clinical documentation and data transfer from Ebola and Marburg virus disease wards in outbreak settings: health care workers' experiences and preferences. [PDF]

, 2014
Understanding human filovirus hemorrhagic fever (FHF) clinical manifestations and evaluating treatment strategies require the collection of clinical data in outbreak settings, where clinical documentation has been limited.
Roddy, Paul, Nolte, Ellen, Matthias Borchert, Ellen Nolte, Paul Roddy, Borchert, Matthias, Bühler, Silja, Silja Bühler   +7 more
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Delayed Disease Progression in Cynomolgus Macaques Infected with Ebola Virus Makona Strain

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
In late 2013, the largest documented outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever started in Guinea and has since spread to neighboring countries, resulting in almost 27,000 cases and >11,000 deaths in humans.
Andrea Marzi, Friederike Feldmann, Patrick W. Hanley, Dana Scott, Stephan Günther, Heinz Feldmann   +5 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; a Review Article

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
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 also in Nzara, Sudan.
Saeed Safari, Alireza Baratloo, Alaleh Rouhipour, Parisa Ghelichkhani, Mahmoud Yousefifard   +4 more
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Mystery Disease X Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Narrative Review of Epidemiological Patterns and Response Challenges. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims An unknown disease known as Disease X first surfaced in the Panzi Health Zone, Kwango Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), towards the end of 2024. It mainly affected children under the age of five. The clinical characteristics and of the outbreak are examined in this review.
Faheem MSB, Haroon-Ul-Rasheed M, Samadi S.   +2 more
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