NOUN
- a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage
How To Use viral haemorrhagic fever In A Sentence
- Lassa fever presents with symptoms and signs indistinguishable from those of febrile illnesses such as malaria and other viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.
- The Black Death was not an epidemic of bubonic plague but a viral haemorrhagic fever with a long incubation period that allowed it to travel far despite the limitations of travel in the Middle Ages.
- Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic fever transmitted by rats, is endemic in west Africa and may kill tens of thousands of people each year
- The living conditions of this rice growing family in Bolivias lowlands are affected by the various endemic diseases they are exposed to: malaria, yellow fever and some of the more exotic or emerging arboviral haemorrhagic fevers. Chapter 14
