How to Use hemorrhagic fever in a Sentence

hemorrhagic fever

noun
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  • In some cases, dengue fever can progress to a potentially life-threatening form called severe dengue or dengue hemorrhagic fever, which can cause bleeding, organ failure and death.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The death toll from hemorrhagic fever stands at 27, with three of them confirmed as Ebola.
    — Time, 23 May 2018
  • The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, leading to problems with how the body clots blood.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This virus, called calicivirus, was a hemorrhagic fever.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Samples of the virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, were taken from the patient in Gueckedou.
    — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
  • This is why researchers think that some patients with dengue fever, which can be a mild disease, go on to develop dengue hemorrhagic fever.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
  • The Ebola virus is a hemorrhagic fever that kills many of its victims — especially in low-resource countries like the DRC.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 29 June 2018
  • Lassa fever is a deadly hemorrhagic fever common to West Africa.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Acuna-Soto is now convinced that the death knell for the Aztecs was an indigenous hemorrhagic fever virus spread by rodents, not the Spanish conquest.
    — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2013
  • The virus is a hemorrhagic fever that kills many of its victims — but that death rate can be highly variable depending on the resources patients and doctors have access to.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 11 May 2018
  • In its most extreme form, the viral hemorrhagic fever leads to uncontrollable bleeding and death.
    — Nichole Sobecki, National Geographic, 24 May 2019
  • This is Congo’s ninth Ebola outbreak since 1976, when the hemorrhagic fever was first identified.
    — Saleh Mwanamilongo, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
  • Marburg virus is a highly infectious, severe disease in the same family as the Ebola virus that leads to hemorrhagic fever.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
  • The Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the northwest of the country, where 17 people died from viral hemorrhagic fever over the past five weeks.
    — Fortune, 9 May 2018
  • Blood clots, in which the red liquid turns gel-like, appear to be the opposite of what occurs in Ebola, Dengue, Lassa and other hemorrhagic fevers that lead to uncontrolled bleeding.
    — Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Patients dying of hemorrhagic fever sometimes have such low blood pressure that no pulse can be detected.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The discovery follows the country’s efforts to stem an outbreak of a hemorrhagic fever of unknown cause in early February.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Karl played a critical role in the discoveries of some of the most horrific diseases on the planet: the viral hemorrhagic fevers, including the Machupo and Ebola viruses.
    — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Health officials traveled there after the local health ministry in Equateur province alerted them on May 3 to 17 deaths from a hemorrhagic fever.
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • The rapid transmission of the virus that causes a hemorrhagic fever is exacerbating a crisis that’s already surpassed the 1976 outbreak as the country’s worst ever.
    — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 5 June 2019
  • Key Takeaways Outbreaks of Marburg virus disease, a rare but fatal hemorrhagic fever, have been reported in two African countries.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Authorities in the east African nation announced the outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever on Sept. 20 triggering fears of a major health crisis in the country of 45 million people.
    — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Studies were underway on Ebola, Lassa and the virus that causes Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • More on Ebola In addition, Congo’s public-health ministry has confirmed 11 new cases of the hemorrhagic fever in the northwestern town of Bikoro.
    — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
  • If a person gets infected, their immune system and blood vessels effectively melt down as the virus takes over and causes a viral hemorrhagic fever.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But the really important point was to come back to the board in December of this year for a broader strategic plan on how that whole effort would go, not just for those two diseases, but for Lassa fever, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, etc.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 20 July 2023
  • In late June of this year, Ghana’s health authorities received some disturbing news: Two cases of viral hemorrhagic fever were detected in the country.
    — Precious Matsoso, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Key Facts Marburg is a highly infectious viral hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Uganda has had multiple outbreaks of Ebola and hemorrhagic fevers since 2000.
    — NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019

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