Bolivian hemorrhagic fever
hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease originating in Bolivia after infection by Machupo virus
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Summary
Bolivian hemorrhagic fever is a class of disease[1].
Key Facts
- Subclass of: viral infectious disease[2], arenavirus hemorrhagic fever[3], infectious disease[4]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1959[5]
- Symptoms and signs: gastrointestinal bleeding[6], bleeding[7], fever[8], nosebleed[9], alopecia[10], rash[11]
- Has cause: Machupo virus[12], Chapare mammarenavirus[13]
- Medical examination: physical examination[14], viral culture[15], ELISA[16]
- Disease transmission process: contact transmission[17]
- Has natural reservoir: Large vesper mouse[18], human[19]
- Health specialty: infectious diseases[20]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: ribavirin[21], blood plasma[22]
- Age of onset: any age[23]
- Case fatality rate: 30 percent[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[25]
- P14914: D319229[26]