hemorrhagic fever

hemorrhagic fever

n.

A syndrome that occurs in perhaps 20 percent to 40 percent of infections by certain arboviruses and is marked by high fever, scattered petechiae, bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract and other organs, hypotension, and shock.

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hemorrhagic fever,

a group of viral infections characterized by fever, chills, headache, malaise, and respiratory or GI symptoms, followed by capillary hemorrhages and, in severe infection, by oliguria, kidney failure, hypotension, and possibly death. Many forms of the disease occur in specific geographic areas. See also dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever shock syndrome, Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease.