Argentine hemorrhagic fever , AHF (Abkürzung)

Similarly the New World Junin virus causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever.

This virus causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever in a limited agricultural area of the pampas in Argentina.

Viral infections: Arenaviruses causing Argentine hemorrhagic fever or Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever among others.

A member of the genus Arenavirus, Junin virus characteristically causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF).

Later still, one of Dr. Peters's colleagues injected himself with Junin virus (which causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever) just to prove that he'd really isolated the pathogen.

Investigational vaccines exist for Argentine hemorrhagic fever and RVF; however, neither is approved by FDA or commonly available in the United States.

Returning to Argentina, he began research on Argentine hemorrhagic fever, a condition known among the country's rural population as the mal de los rastrojos ("the sickness of the corn straw").

For example, Dr. Chomel said, the corn mouse that carries the virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever has spread its range with changes in farming, leading to outbreaks of the bleeding disease.

The United States Army and the Argentine Government are inoculating part of this group with a vaccine developed at Fort Detrick against Junin virus, a disease also called Argentine hemorrhagic fever.

Argentine hemorrhagic fever was one of three hemorrhagic fevers and one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before the nation suspended its biological weapons program.

Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF) or O'Higgins disease, also known in Argentina as mal de los rastrojos, stubble disease, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease occurring in Argentina.

Although, there are no cures or immunization for the disease, a vaccine developed for the genetically related Junín virus which causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever has shown evidence of cross-reactivity to Machupo virus and may therefore be an effective prophylactic measure for people at high risk of infection.

The city, a prosperous agricultural hub in the heart of Argentina's corn belt, was also the epicenter in 1958 of a sudden outbreak of Argentine hemorrhagic fever, a condition known among the country's rural population as the mal de los rastrojos ("the sickness of the corn straw").