Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever

Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a zoonotic human illness first identified in 1989.

Guanarito virus (Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)

Many Zygodontomys brevicauda serve as viral reservoirs, causing illnesses such as Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever.

At Yale, he led or participated in investigations of Rift Valley fever, Lassa fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever and other diseases.

The family Arenaviridae include the viruses responsible for Lassa fever, Lujo virus, Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fevers.

Preliminary research shows that Sabia virus appears to be more closely related to a group of arenaviruses that cause Argentinian, Bolivian and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever in South America than it is to the virus that causes Lassa fever, Dr. Shope said.

Ribavirin is the only known treatment for a variety of viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever, and Hantavirus infection, although data regarding these infections are scarce and the drug might be effective only in early stages.