haemorrhagic fever
- n 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
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- West Africa mobilises against Ebola epidemic
West African countries mobilised Friday against an epidemic of haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea with more suspected cases in Mali, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Guinea is the worst affected country with 86 deaths, 45 of them confirmed as Ebola -- a highly contagious disease that leads to external and internal bleeding and kills up to 90 percent of ...
April 4, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News - Mali reports three suspected Ebola cases
Mali said Thursday it had detected three suspected victims of Ebola, the deadly disease that has killed 84 people in Guinea. "Three suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever have been detected in the country. Samples have been taken and sent abroad for analysis," the country's Health Minister Ousmane Kone told AFP. Pending results from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where the ...
April 3, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News - Liberia confirms spread of 'unprecedented' Ebola epidemic
Aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said an Ebola outbreak suspected of killing dozens in Guinea was an "unprecedented epidemic" as Liberia confirmed its first cases of the deadly contagion. Guinea's health ministry this year has reported 122 "suspicious cases" of viral haemorrhagic fever, including 78 deaths, with 22 of the samples taken from patients testing positive for the highly ...
April 1, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News