What is hemorrhagic fever?
Disease description:
I originally thought my unexplained body fever was just a regular fever, but after going to the hospital for a checkup, they told me it was hemorrhagic fever. I would like to ask the doctor, what kind of disease is hemorrhagic fever?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Li Jingli
Hemorrhagic fever is a group of acute infectious diseases caused by infections with different pathogenic microorganisms. It mainly includes epidemic hemorrhagic fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, etc.
Epidemic hemorrhagic fever (also known as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) is a zoonotic disease primarily transmitted by rodents and caused by hantavirus infection. Its main symptoms include fever, hemorrhage, congestion, hypotensive shock, and kidney damage.
Hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted through various routes including the respiratory tract, digestive tract, arthropod vectors, and aerosols. The disease course can be divided into the fever phase, hypotensive shock phase, oliguric phase, diuretic phase, and convalescent phase. Diagnosis and treatment of hemorrhagic fever should be conducted according to the stage of disease progression, while simultaneously focusing on the prevention and management of complications.
