No current treatment can cure viral hemorrhagic fevers, and immunizations exist for only a few types.
When viral hemorrhagic fevers occur in the United States, they're usually found in people who've recently traveled internationally.
Viral hemorrhagic fevers are spread by contact with infected animals, people or insects.
Thus, it could be given before tests prove that a patient in the ER does not have a hemorrhagic stroke.
Hemorrhagic strokes, which involve bleeds in the brain, make up the remainder.
Activase isn't all that effective against occlusive strokes, and risks killing the patient if in fact he is suffering from a hemorrhagic stroke.
But Activase isn't very effective against occlusive strokes, and it even risks killing the patient if he in fact suffered a hemorrhagic stroke.
Their hope is that such a drug would be precious to patients with ischemic strokes and, unlike clot-buster drugs, harmless to those with hemorrhagic strokes.
More effective repellents could play a major role in reducing the death toll from diseases spread by mosquitoes, including malaria, encephalitis, West Nile, dengue, hemorrhagic and yellow fevers.
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Uganda's Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after getting confirmatory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute identifying the disease as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Sudan strain.
However, the FDA had received reports that the drug was associated with hemorrhagic stroke in young women and completely removed it from the market in 2005 (although it can still be purchased for veterinary use).
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