Ebola: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Other viral hemorrhagic fevers such as yellow fever, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo virus, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever, or hemorrhagic courses of dengue fever, etc.
  • Hanta virus
  • Leptospirosis
  • Malaria – Malaria tropica: thrombocytopenia (decreased platelet/platelet count); rarely a consumptive coagulopathy with manifest bleeding.
  • Meningococcal sepsis (Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome).
  • Rickettsioses – infectious disease caused by rickettsiae.
  • Typhoid abdominalis – infectious disease associated with severe diarrhea.
  • Viral hepatitis (virus-related liver inflammation), fulminant.