How to Use hemorrhagic fever in a Sentence
hemorrhagic fever
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The death toll from hemorrhagic fever stands at 27, with three of them confirmed as Ebola.
—Time, 23 May 2018
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The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, leading to problems with how the body clots blood.
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2022
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This virus, called calicivirus, was a hemorrhagic fever.
—Bethany Brookshire, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
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Samples of the virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, were taken from the patient in Gueckedou.
—Stephanie Busari, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In its most extreme form, the viral hemorrhagic fever leads to uncontrollable bleeding and death.
—Nichole Sobecki, National Geographic, 24 May 2019
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This is Congo’s ninth Ebola outbreak since 1976, when the hemorrhagic fever was first identified.
—Saleh Mwanamilongo, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Studies were underway on Ebola, Lassa and the virus that causes Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever.
—New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
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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
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Key Facts Marburg is a highly infectious viral hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola.
—Robert Hart, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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Uganda has had multiple outbreaks of Ebola and hemorrhagic fevers since 2000.
—NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019
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Marburg causes Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever that can affect the body’s organs and cause bleeding, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
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Old World hantaviruses cause a disease called hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2022
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Last week, the nation reported the region’s first brush with Marburg virus — another hemorrhagic fever with fatality rates of up to 88 percent, depending on the strain.
—Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
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