Hemorrhagic Fever
VHF
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Diagnosis
- mortality is less than 1% with good medical management
- diagnosis by lab results by blood sample
Symptoms
- High fever
- Fatigue
- Dizziness
- Muscle, bone or joint aches
- Weakness
Complications/ Severe Symptoms
- Under the skin
- In internal organs
- From the mouth, eyes or ears
- Shock
- Nervous system malfunctions
- Coma
- Delirium
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure
Complications
- Death due to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Risk Factors
- Working with the sick
- Slaughtering infected animals
- Sharing needles
- Having unprotected sex
- Working outdoors or in rat-infested buildings
Target Audience
- People who live in geographic locations of the tropics
- The disease can be transmitted by saliva, air, cough, fecal-oral route, surfaces, blood, needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact, mother to fetus, etc.
- disease can be nosocomial
- if not treated it will develop into multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- disease is not really apparent in U.S. but frequent in Tropics and Africa
Yellow Fever
- spread by the bite of infected mosquitos
- can cause jaundice, hepatitis
- can be life threatening
- originated in Africa
Ebola
- first case in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- four strains of this virus
- fever with chills, arthralgia , myalgia, and chest pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting, sore throat, cough, dyspnea, hiccups, headache seizures, coma