Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever

• Tatyana E. Sizikova
• S.I. Syromyatnikova
• Vitaliy N. Lebedev
• Vladimir B. Pantyukhov
• S.V. Borisevich

Abstract

Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF), being particularly dangerous viral disease is a growing public health concern as it poses a serious threat to human health, both in terms of infection occurring naturally, and because of possible cases of skidding on non-endemic areas. The infection of man in nature is a result of contact with infected rodent. The cotton rats (Sigmodon alstoni) and cane mouse (Zygodontomys brevicauda) are the probable rodent reservoir. The mortality level in period from 1989 to 2013 is about 23 percents.

Keywords:viral hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever, arenaviruses, Guanarito virus, a reservoir of infection, methods of diagnostic, specific prophylaxis

All articles in our journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0 license)