ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C80 — Viral encephalitis not elsewhere classified
1D61.1 — Bolivian haemorrhagic fever
ICD-11 1D61.1 — Bolivian haemorrhagic fever
A disease endemic to Bolivia that is caused by an infection with Machupo virus. Early disease symptoms/signs include fever, mild hypertension, headache, bleeding gums, and fatigue. Advanced signs include mucous membrane haemorrhage, epistaxis, melena, and neurological damage such as tremors, seizures, loss of muscle control, and coma. Onset of disease symptoms occur usually within seven days of infection. The lethality ranges from 18% to 22%. Transmission occurs by inhalation, consumption, or direct contact with excretions and bodily fluids from infected rodents. Diagnosis occurs by identification of Machupo virus from blood or mucosal secretions samples.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: