hemorrhagic fever

Chapter: 9a
A hemorrhagic fever is a viral infection that causes high fever and profuse bleeding. The bleeding is largely due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Several tropical fevers meet this general definition, including: Hantaan virus (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever), Lassa fever, Marburg fever, and, most recently, Ebola fever. Treatment for hemorrhagic fever is supportive only, although antisera is sometimes given, if available. All of these diseases are examples of Emerging Infections

References

  1. Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague. Random House, 1995. A scholarly account of emerging diseases, including HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis. Well worth reading, but long.

  2. The Hot Zone. 1995, Random House. A rather sensationalist account of the search for the cause of Ebola fever. Perhaps that is why it is still on the New York Times best-seller list.The movie "Outbreak" is loosely based on this book.

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