hemorrhagic fever

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Definition of hemorrhagic fever

: any of a diverse group of virus diseases (such as Lassa fever and Ebola) that are usually transmitted by arthropods or rodents and are characterized by a sudden onset, fever, aching, bleeding in the internal organs, petechiae, and shock

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Recent Examples on the Web Spread through contact with an infected or recently deceased person's bodily fluids or secretions, the Ebola virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with an average fatality rate of about half, although two vaccines are now available against it. — Isabella Kwai New York Times, Star Tribune, "Guinea Declares Ebola Outbreak With at Least 3 Deaths," 14 Feb. 2021 Showing early symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, the patient sits quietly on her bed, wrangling two toddlers desperate to flee the cell-like hospital room in Ingende, a remote town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). — Eliza Mackintosh, CNN, "What you need to know about coronavirus on Tuesday, December 22," 22 Dec. 2020 Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever marked by a host of symptoms—including bleeding, fever, stomach pains, weakness, and rashes—and is spread through direct contact with an infected person or animal’s blood or bodily fluids. — Science, "10 awesome science discoveries you may have missed in 2020," 3 Dec. 2020 Most displayed only flulike symptoms, but in some cases, the illness escalated into a severe hemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola. — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, "How Climate Change Is Making It Harder to Predict Outbreaks," 1 May 2018 Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that is transmitted through contact with sick or dead people or animals, causes fever, bleeding, and abdominal pain. — Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, "Congo’s deadliest Ebola outbreak is declared over," 25 June 2020 Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever endemic in animal populations that reside in Africa’s tropical forests and is passed from person to person through contact with bodily fluids. — Max Bearak, Washington Post, "Congo declares end of world’s second-largest Ebola outbreak," 25 June 2020 This is why researchers think that some patients with dengue fever, which can be a mild disease, go on to develop dengue hemorrhagic fever. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "The Ars COVID-19 vaccine primer: 100-plus in the works, 8 in clinical trials," 1 May 2020 Blood clots, in which the red liquid turns gel-like, appear to be the opposite of what occurs in Ebola, Dengue, Lassa and other hemorrhagic fevers that lead to uncontrolled bleeding. — Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, "A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients," 22 Apr. 2020

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hemorrhagic fever

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Medical Definition of hemorrhagic fever

: any of a diverse group of virus diseases (as Korean hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, and Ebola) that are usually transmitted to humans by arthropods or rodents and are characterized by a sudden onset, fever, aching, bleeding in the internal organs (as of the gastrointestinal tract), petechiae, and shock

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