Resources with keywords: VHF
Includes recommendations for clinical and public health labs, clinicians and the public.
Following the confirmation of an outbreak of Sudan virus disease – which belongs to the same family as Ebola virus disease – in Uganda today, World Health Organization (WHO) is mobilizing efforts to support the national health authorities to swiftly contain and end the outbreak.
The Iowa Department of HHS has confirmed the death of a middle-aged eastern Iowa resident from Lassa fever. The individual had recently returned from travel to West Africa.
This guidance refers only to the following viral hemorrhagic fevers: Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and the South American Hemorrhagic Fevers (i.e., those caused by Junin, Machupo, Chapare, Guanarito and Sabia viruses).
This is a reference wensite including WHO’s approach to responding to this outbreak
This report summarizes CDC’s recommendations for public health departments and clinicians in the United States on case identification and testing and clinical laboratory biosafety considerations.
This is a reference website for resources including a “Weekly Special Press Briefing on the Mpox Outbreak and other Health Emergencies in Africa”
This guidance applies to Filoviruses, Arenaviruses, Rift Valley fever virus, Crimean Congo HFV. This guidance also applies to other high-consequence diseases that require a specialized laboratory, are highly pathogenic, and have no vaccine or treatment currently available, like Nipah virus disease.