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hemorrhagic fevers

Types

- arthropod-borne viral infections prevalent in southern Africa

  • chikungunya fever
  • Sindbis fever
  • West Nile fever (West Nile virus)
  • yellow fever
  • Rift Valley fever

- viral infections associated with rodents

  • Lassa fever

- viral infection associated with monkeys

  • rickettsial infections
  • tick-bite fever
    • spotted fever of tick typhus occurring in southern Africa)
    • Q fever
  • bacterial infections
    • coccal infections
    • plague septicemia
    • meningococcal
    • staphylococcal
    • streptococcal septicemia

- viral infections

  • rubella

- non-infectious diseases

See also

- hemorrhagic state (systemic hemorrhages)
- infectious agents (infecting organisms)
- viruses
- rickettsiae
- bacterias
- protozoas
- coagulation cascade
- fibrin formation
- fibrin deposits in microvasculature (thrombotic microangiopathy)
- aggregation of platelets and entanglement of platelets
- marked thrombocytopenia
- bleeding
- coagulation factors

  • prothrombin

References

- Gear JH. Hemorrhagic fevers, with special reference to recent outbreaks in southern Africa. Rev Infect Dis. 1979 Jul-Aug;1(4):571-91. PMID: 399369