ALLMedicine™ Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Center

Feb 16th, 2021 - Circulatory shock, caused by severe intravascular volume depletion resulting from gastrointestinal losses and profound capillary leak, is a common clinical feature of viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola virus disease, Marburg hemorrhagic fev...

Sep 22nd, 2020 - Diseases caused by many highly pathogenic viruses, including Ebola virus (EBOV) and Lassa virus (LASV), present with nonspecific signs and symptoms that overlap with common tropical diseases such as malaria. Initial diagnostic tests performed on p...

Aug 18th, 2020 - Recent outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), including Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Lassa fever (LF), highlight the urgent need for sensitive, deployable tests to diagnose these devastating human diseases. Here we develop CRISPR-Cas13a-ba...

Jun 25th, 2020 - The safety profile of favipiravir should not be the first argument to suspend its evaluation in viral hemorrhagic fevers.|2020|Malvy D,Taburet AM,de Lamballerie X,Mentre F,Extramiana F,|adverse effects,therapeutic use,adverse effects,therapeutic u...

Apr 10th, 2020 - The 2014-2016 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa triggered extensive investments from public and private partners in an attempt to slow the spread of disease and bring the outbreak under control. This significantly accelerated the pace of develop...

Oct 18th, 2018 - This CALM algorithm is for use by Emergency Room clinicians in assessing a patient with signs, symptoms, and/or diagnostic findings concerning for a possible viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF).

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Diagnosis Diagnosing specific viral hemorrhagic fevers in the first few days of illness can be difficult because the early signs and symptoms — high fever, muscle aches, headaches and extreme fatigue — are common to many other diseases. To help wi...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Overview Viral hemorrhagic (hem-uh-RAJ-ik) fevers are infectious diseases that can cause severe, life-threatening illness. They can damage the walls of tiny blood vessels, making them leak, and can hamper the blood's ability to clot. The resulting...

Feb 16th, 2021 - Circulatory shock, caused by severe intravascular volume depletion resulting from gastrointestinal losses and profound capillary leak, is a common clinical feature of viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola virus disease, Marburg hemorrhagic fev...

Sep 22nd, 2020 - Diseases caused by many highly pathogenic viruses, including Ebola virus (EBOV) and Lassa virus (LASV), present with nonspecific signs and symptoms that overlap with common tropical diseases such as malaria. Initial diagnostic tests performed on p...

Sep 21st, 2020 - Diagnosis Diagnosing yellow fever based on signs and symptoms can be difficult because early in its course, the infection can be easily confused with malaria, typhoid, dengue fever and other viral hemorrhagic fevers. To diagnose your condition, yo...

Oct 18th, 2018 - This CALM algorithm is for use by Emergency Room clinicians in assessing a patient with signs, symptoms, and/or diagnostic findings concerning for a possible viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF).

Mar 20th, 2006 - Action Points Explain to patients who ask that they are not likely to ever develop any of these hemorrhagic fevers, but treatment for most is supportive care. Note that accurate and rapid diagnostic testing is important to put in place appropriate...