Journal of Acute Disease (Oct 2015)

Acute viral hemorrhage disease: A summary on new viruses

  • Somsri Wiwanitkit,
  • Viroj Wiwanitkit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joad.2015.06.004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 277 – 279

Abstract

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Acute hemorrhagic disease is an important problem in medicine that can be seen in many countries, especially those in tropical world. There are many causes of acute hemorrhagic disease and the viral infection seems to be the common cause. The well-known infection is dengue, however, there are many new identified viruses that can cause acute hemorrhagic diseases. In this specific short review, the authors present and discuss on those new virus diseases that present as “acute hemorrhagic fever”.

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