Notable VHF Outbreaks
- Cocoliztli in New Mexico 1545.
- The Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia, PA USA. Nearly 10% of the population of 50,000 succumbed to the disease.
- Mékambo in Gabon is the site of several outbreaks of Ebola virus disease.
- Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo villages of Durba and Watsa were the epicenter of the 1998–2000 outbreak of Marburg virus disease.
- Uíge Province in Angola is the site of world's worst hemorrhagic fever epidemic, which occurred in 2005.
- A VHF outbreak in the village of Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that started in August 2007, and that has killed 103 people (100 adults and three children), has been shown to be caused (at least partially) by Ebola virus.
- Some experts believe that the Black Death of the Middle Ages may have been caused by a VHF and not by the bubonic plague.
- A viral hemorrhagic fever is a possible cause of the Plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
- The initial, and currently only, outbreak of Lujo virus in September-October 2008 left 4/5 patients dead.
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