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While haemorrhages associated with severe infectious disease are not uncommon — for instance, in haemorrhagic varicella or the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome in acute meningococcaemia — the occurrence of haemorrhagic tendency as a characteristic clinical feature has led to the grouping together of certain viral diseases under the heading of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHF).
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Westwood, J.C.N. (1980). Candidate Diseases. In: The Hazard from Dangerous Exotic Diseases. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05277-6_3
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