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Notice to readers : Update: management of patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fever--United States
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  • Corporate Authors:
    National Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Hospital Infections Program. Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases. ; National Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Quarantine. ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Office of Health and Safety.
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  • Pubmed ID:
    7783731
  • Description:
    In 1988, CDC published guidelines for managing patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). Pending a comprehensive review of the 1988 guidelines, this notice provides interim recommendations that update the 1988 guidelines for healthcare settings in the United States. This update applies to four viruses that cause syndromes of VHF: Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, and Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever viruses; although the risk and/or mode of nosocomial transmission differs for each of these viruses, the limited data do not permit clear distinctions.

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    Journal Article
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    Guidelines and Recommendations
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This document has replaced (most recent first):
  1. Viral hemorrhagic fever : initial management of suspected and confirmed cases
    Corporate Author:
    Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
    Published:
    December 16, 1983
    Series:
    MMWR. Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries ; v. 32, suppl. 2
    HHS publication ; no. (CDC) 83-8017
    Description:
    Every year the possibility exists that travelers with viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) transmissible from person to person —Lassa, Ebola, Marburg, or Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) —may enter the United States. Among U.S. citizens, health pr...
    Status:
    superseded
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 12.42 MB]
  2. Management of patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fever
    Published:
    February 26, 1988
    Source:
    MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 1988; 37 Suppl 3:1-16.
    Description:
    The term viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) refers to the illness associated with a number of geographically restricted viruses. This illness is characterized by fever and, in the most severe cases, shock and hemorrhage (1). Although a number of other feb...
    Status:
    superseded
    File Type:
    Filetype[HTML]
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    Published:
    February 26, 1988
    Source:
    MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 1988; 37 Suppl 3:1-16.
    Description:
    The term viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) refers to the illness associated with a number of geographically restricted viruses. This illness is characterized by fever and, in the most severe cases, shock and hemorrhage (1). Although a number of other feb...
    Status:
    superseded
    File Type:
    Filetype[HTML]
  2. Viral hemorrhagic fever : initial management of suspected and confirmed cases
    Corporate Author:
    Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
    Published:
    December 16, 1983
    Series:
    MMWR. Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries ; v. 32, suppl. 2
    HHS publication ; no. (CDC) 83-8017
    Description:
    Every year the possibility exists that travelers with viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) transmissible from person to person —Lassa, Ebola, Marburg, or Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) —may enter the United States. Among U.S. citizens, health pr...
    Status:
    superseded
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 12.42 MB]
  3. Interim guidance for managing patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fever in U.S. hospitals
    Corporate Author:
    National Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
    Published:
    May 19, 2005
    Description:
    This document updates recommendations (MMWR 1995; 44 (25) ;475-9 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/000 38033.htm) for managing patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) who are admitted to U.S. hospitals. This document provides additional...
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    Filetype[PDF - 46.67 KB]
  4. Virus Detection and Monitoring of Viral Load in Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Patients
    Personal Author:
    Wölfel, Roman; Paweska, Janusz T.; Petersen, Nadine; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Leman, Patricia A.; Hewson, Roger; Georges-Courbot, Marie-Claude; Papa, Anna; Günther, Stephan; Drosten, Christian;
    Published:
    Jul 2007
    Source:
    Emerg Infect Dis. 13(7):1097-1100.
    Description:
    We developed a real-time reverse transcription--PCR that detected 1,164 copies/mL of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus per milliliter of serum at 95% probability (probit analysis) and was 100% concordant with nested PCR on 63 samples from 31 pati...
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  5. Hospital Preparations for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Patients and Experience Gained from Admission of an Ebola Patient
    Personal Author:
    Haverkort, J.J. Mark; Minderhoud, A.L.C. (Ben); Wind, Jelte D.D.; Leenen, Luke P.H.; Hoepelman, Andy I.M.; Ellerbroek, Pauline M.;
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    Feb 2016
    Source:
    Emerg Infect Dis. 22(2):184-191.
    Description:
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