Omsk hemorrhagic fever

Omsk hemorrhagic fever is an acute febrile disease. The virus has neurophilic characteristics and can cause lesions in many types of cell culture such as Hela cell chicken embryo cells, hamster kidney cells and monkey kidney cells. Its characteristics are: viral antigen, natural epidemic origin, bleeding symptoms and benign process. Sudden onset of illness, fever, headache, back and limb pain, vomiting and diarrhea, pseudomeningitis, mucosal rash of the crotch. The disease was found in 1941 to 1943, and in the rural northern Omsk, Siberia, former Soviet Union, 1944 to 1945 The disease was first reported, with two outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in Omsk in 1945 and 1946, with an incidence of more than 200 and 600 people, respectively.