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Handbook of Viral and Rickettsial Hemorrhagic Fevers
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First Published in 1988: There clearly is a need for a comprehensive account of the hemorrhagic fever viruses and the diseases they cause, as well as of the conditions which may simulate them. There is also a need for an account of the methods for their study and prevention. It is trusted that this handbook will help meet this need.
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Prevention and Control
Prevention and Control of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
IsaƤcson Margaretha
With the exception of yellow fever, effective vaccines for use in humans are not readily available for use in the prevention of viral hemorrhagic fevers. Vaccines against Rift Valley fever (for humans and animals) and Omsk hemorrhagic fever exist, but these, especially the latter, are less widely available.
Mechanization in agriculture, especially of harvesting practices, reduces direct exposure of the human host to animals, their excreta, and their ectoparasites which may serve as vectors of hemorrhagic fever viruses. The main thrust against these infections, therefore, must be directed largely towards those mechanisms and routes of transmission that are known to play significant roles.
Epidemiology of Hospital-Transmitted viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Irrespective of their natural cycles, most viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) are distinguished by the fact that hospital- and/or laboratory-acquired infections are common and carry a significant mortality. In nature, many VHFs indeed appear to affect humans either uncommonly or in relatively mild form, and it is only when the artificial hospital/laboratory setting is slotted into the natural ecology of the VHF viruses that significant interhuman transmission takes place. This phenomenon has been observed inter alia with the arenavirus group (Lassa, Junin, and Machupo), Congo virus, and the Marburg/Ebola group of viruses. Ebola HF is likely to remain the classic example of the magnitude and mortality which a hospital-amplified VHF epidemic can assume. There are several probable reasons why interhuman transmission would seem to occur more readily in the hospital than in the home environment and also why nosocomial infection shou...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- The Editor
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Cosmopolitan Infections
- Mosquito-Borne Diseases
- Tick-Borne Diseases
- Rodent-Borne Diseases
- Unknown Transmission
- Rickettsial Diseases
- Diagnosis
- Prevention and Control