Lujo hemorrhagic fever

Orpha code: 319213OMIM code:

Definition

Lujo hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Lujo virus (a newly discovered Old World arenavirus) is a zoonotic disease from Zambia, Africa, whose reservoir is unknown and is characterized by fever and hemorrhagic manifestations with an extremely high fatality rate of 80% (in the 5 reported cases to date) and a moderate to high level of nosocomial transmission.

Disease data
Classification

Disease

Synonyms
Zambian hemorrhagic fever
Zambijska gorączka krwotoczna
ORPHA code
319213
OMIM code
-
ICD10 code
A96.8
ICD11 code
-

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