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The Sudden outbreak of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever in Nigeria: What Radiographers and other Healthcare Providers must Know
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Abstract: Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHF) are a group of infectious and life-threatening diseases that are both a vector-borne and zoonotic diseases. This narrative review aims to highlight and reinforce the knowledge of VHFs to Radiographers and other healthcare professionals. An extensive literature search was conducted from 1969-2024 using the Google search engine for original, systematic reviews and grey literature on Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). the search was extended by scrutinizing the selected articles' reference lists to ensure that much relevant literature was extracted on the subject. The literature synthesis is presented in a flow chart Fig. 1, and emerging themes are summarized in Table 1 and discussed.
