Fever, epidemic hemorrhagic definition - medical term
A numb er of diseases characterized by an
abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and pain in the
muscles, joints and abdomen with nausea and vomiting followed by bleeding into the
kidney and elsewhere. Known also as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Many arboviruses (including those in the families Togaviridae, Flaviviridae,
Filoviridae, and Bunyaviridae) and the Hantaviruses, spread by rodents or biting
insects, can cause epidemic hemorrhagic fever. The Ebola virus is a notorious cause
of epidemic hemorrhagic fever.
Bioterrorism -- There has been concern about the hemorrhagic fever as
a possible weapon for bioterrorism. However, the General Accounting Office, the
investigative arm of the US Congress, in a 1999 report considered hemorrhagic fever
to be an "unlikely" biologic threat for terrorism, because these viruses are very
difficult to obtain and process, unsafe to handle, and relatively unstable. The
lethal effects of these viruses were deemed by the GAO to depend on the strain but
can be "very high."
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