Bolivian hemorrhagic fever

Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus, Ordog Fever, or Machupo virus, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease occurring in Bolivia. First identified in 1959 by a research group led by Karl Johnson, it is caused by infection with machupo virus, a negative single-stranded RNA virus of the Arenaviridae family. The mortality rate is estimated at 5 to 30 percent. Due to its pathogenicity, Machupo virus requires Bi... more
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