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New World Arenavirus – Machupo Virus
2011 Case Definition

New World Arenavirus – Machupo Virus
2011 Case Definition
NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Subtype(s)

  • Viral hemorrhagic fever
  • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
  • Ebola virus
  • Lassa virus
  • Lujo virus
  • Marburg virus
  • New World arenavirus – Guanarito virus
  • New World arenavirus – Junin virus
  • New World arenavirus – Sabia virus

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National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)

NNDSS receives and shares case data from state, local, and territorial health departments to help public health monitor, control, and prevent serious diseases.

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