The Enigmatic Haemorrhagic Fevers

Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers

This book is a small volume in the series “Perspectives in Medical Virology.” It seeks to provide an overview of all of the viruses that have been associated with hemorrhagic disease. The chapters cover epidemiology, clinical disease, immunology and pathology, molecular virology, diagnosis, and all other aspects of the science and threat to public health of a disparate group of viral infections...

Viral haemorrhagic fevers in South Africa.

Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) include a diverse array of diseases caused by a broad range of viruses transmitted from various animal hosts and originating from almost all the continents in the world. These are potentially fatal and highly transmissible diseases without specific treatments or prophylactic vaccines. As has been demonstrated during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Afric...

Ebola and other viral haemorrhagic fevers.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest and most complicated that the world has even seen. Since it was first identified in the forested regions of south eastern Guinea in March, it has spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria and has now been declared a “public health emergency of international concern” by the World Health Organization. Ebola virus is one of a group of zoo...

Management and control of viral haemorrhagic fevers.

The role of the vascular endothelium in arenavirus haemorrhagic fevers.

Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHF) caused by arenaviruses are among the most devastating emerging human diseases. The most important pathogen among the arenaviruses is Lassa virus (LASV), the causative agent of Lassa fever that is endemic to West Africa. On the South American continent, the New World arenavirus Junin virus (JUNV), Machupo (MACV), Guanarito (GTOV), and Sabia virus (SABV) have emerg...