What Is Hemorrhagic Fever?

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8. Are There Any Risk Factors?

Although these viral diseases are rare, there are a few risk factors that may increase your risk of contracting a hemorrhagic fever. Working with sick individuals in areas of known VHF presence can increase your risk of contracting a fever.

Other risk factors include being exposed to blood or body fluids of infected individuals, eating bush meat from countries with known viruses or traveling in rural jungle areas in these regions. Unprotected sex, intravenous drug use and other practices can spread these viruses, so these activities in tropical regions are also risk factors.

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