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Rift Valley fever Kiswahili: Homa ya Bonde la Ufa

From Wikidata and MedlinePlus; a guide, not a diagnosis.

Usual symptoms

  • Headaches
  • Meningism
  • Loss of sight
  • A fever (feeling hot, with chills or sweats)
  • Yellow eyes or skin
  • Bleeding that is hard to stop, or bleeding from unusual places
  • Nosebleeds
  • Muscle aches
  • A rash
  • Joint pain
  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation
  • A stiff neck that is painful to bend forward
  • Black, tarry stools
  • Very heavy periods
  • Vomiting blood or passing black stools
  • Meningoencephalitis
  • Times of being confused or not fully aware

Red ones can be signs of an emergency: get help at once.

Having some of these does not mean you have this condition: many conditions share the same symptoms.

Who to see

  • A clinic for infections

Related health checks

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Symptoms, specialties, risk factors and codes from Wikidata (CC0 public domain); reading from MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine. A guide, not a diagnosis: please see a health worker.