Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a severe, often fatal, illness caused by four distinct families of viruses: arenaviruses, filoviruses, bunyaviruses, and flaviviruses. These viruses are all RNA ...

Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different outbreaks died. Latest U.S.

What Is A Viral Hemorrhagic Fever? There are four families of viruses that cause the diseases known as viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), a term that originates from two characteristics of the ...

Death from Ebola-like virus reported in Iowa after travel to West Africa. The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such ...

A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching what is believed to be Lassa fever, officials said Monday. The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic ...