Is viral fever fatal enough to cause death?
Patient: Hai Doctor, We are in a village in tamilnadu my friends wife age35 was diagonised viral fever and was hospitalised,after few days was taken to a specialitily hospital and treated for the sama mean will she had her periods after beging in hospital for 5 days she did not recover and passed away will viralfeaver be that fatal? Doctor: Thanks for contacting HCM. Usually viral fevers are self limiting but in patients with low immunity they can be life threatening. Also some viral fevers are also very severe type where death do occurs as in dengue haemorrhagic fever and ebola virus infections. What you described about your friend's wife appears to be a case of Dengue haemorrhagic fever where blood clotting is impaired due fall in blood platelet levels and patient starts to bleed spontaneously from different sites and unfortunately in your friend's wife's case she had periods at that time and she probably died of excess bleeding. Feeling sorry for your friend and his poor wife. Regards