Rift valley fever differential diagnosis
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aakash Hans, MD[2]
Overview
Differential Diagnosis
The majority of differential diagnoses for RVF arise from other diseases which are prevalent in travelers and present with fever. All these disease would share a similar history of recent travel to an endemic area, followed by development of fever and body aches. A few of these diseases are listed below :
- Malaria
- Typhoid fever
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
- Ebola virus disease
- Dengue
- Yellow fever
- Lassa fever
- Chikungunya
- Q fever
- Zika virus
- Marburg virus disease
References
- https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rift-valley-fever
- https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/rvf/index.html