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===Types=== | ===Types=== | ||
'''Communicable by Person-to-Person Spread''' | '''VFHs Communicable by Person-to-Person Spread''' | ||
*[[Ebola]] | *[[Ebola]] | ||
*[[Marburg]] | *[[Marburg]] | ||
Revision as of 07:25, 31 August 2015
Background
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) refer to a group of illnesses that are caused by several distinct families of viruses
Types
VFHs Communicable by Person-to-Person Spread
Differential Diagnosis
Fever in traveler
- Normal causes of acute fever!
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Leptospirosis
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Chikungunya
- Yellow fever
- Rift valley fever
- Q fever
- Amebiasis
- Zika virus
Bioterrorism Agents[1]
Category A
Category B
- Ricin
- Brucellosis
- Epsilon toxin
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever
- Staph enterotoxin B
- Typhus
- Glanders
- Melioidosis
- Food safety threats
- Water safety threats
- Viral encephalitis
Category C
- Influenza
- Yellow fever
- Tickborne hemorrhagic fever
- Tickborne encephalitis