Infection with influenza viruses occurs during annual winter epidemics and is usually a self-limited illness. However, it can cause severe illness and deaths, particularly in children with high-risk medical conditions and neurological, genetic and chromosomal disorders. Inflammatory cytokines such as inte...
Communicable Diseases Theodore H. Tulchinsky MD, MPH, Elena A. Varavikova MD, MPH, PhD, in The New Public Health (Third Edition), 2014 Other Hemorrhagic Fevers Lassa Fever Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus, first isolated in Lassa, Nigeria, in 1969...
The body temperature increases up to 39–40°C and stays that way for 3–4 days, then decreases a little and critically falls on the 7th to 10th day after symptoms appear. From the first days of the illness, there are diapedetic bleedings, especially in the nose. Recovery is usual...
Advanced age a risk factor for illness temporally associated with yellow fever vaccination. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(6):945–951. 69. Thomas RE, Lorenzetti DL, Spragins W. Mortality and morbidity among military personnel and civilians during the 1930s and World War II from transmission of ...
and the source of the imported case. An imported cases of dengue fever was defined by the patients been to a dengue affected foreign country and reported being bitten by mosquitoes within 15 days of the onset of illness. Indigenous and imported cases in the two study areas were identified by...
5 hospital staff members, who had had contact with a fatal case of viral haemorrhagic fever admitted on 10 November, 1979, developed a febrile illness, in Rashid hospital, Dubai. 2 of them died. Ascites, pleural effusions, and massive haemorrhages in several organs were revealed at post-morte...
Malaria is an acute febrile illness caused by Plasmodium parasite. It is considered a serious public health threat because of its severity and often fatal outcome. Over half of the population is known to be at risk of malaria globally; and most of them are children under-5 years of age [...
Because of the infrequency of VHF illness in industrialized countries, the initial evaluation of a patient with suspected imported VHF infection should not only attempt to provide supportive therapy or specific antiviral agents as appropriate, but also to rule out other, more common, pathogens that ...
The RRNA was piloted in 2017 using a fictitious Lassa fever (LF) outbreak scenario. LF is an acute, viral illness first recognized in Nigeria in 1969 [12]. The causative pathogen, Lassa virus (LASV), is a zoonotic, single-stranded RNA arenavirus that is endemic in Guinea, Liberia, Sierr...
Also known as: communicable disease, contagious disease Written by Ralph D. Feigin President and chief executive officer, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Ralph D. Feigin, Renu Garg Pediatrician. Renu Garg•All Fact-checked by ...