epidemic hemorrhagic fever

n.

An acute viral hemorrhagic fever characterized by headache, high fever, sweating, thirst, photophobia, coryza, cough, myalgia, arthralgia, and abdominal pain with nausea and vomiting. This phase lasts from three to six days and is followed by capillary hemorrhages, edema, oliguria, and shock.Far Eastern hemorrhagic fever hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome Korean hemorrhagic fever Manchurian hemorrhagic fever

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Words nearby epidemic hemorrhagic fever

epideictic, epidemic, epidemic encephalitis, epidemic gastroenteritis virus, epidemic hemoglobinuria, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis virus, epidemic meningitis, epidemic myalgia, epidemic myositis
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