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purpura

Condition marked by purplish patches on the skin or mucous membranes due to localized spontaneous bleeding. It may be harmless, as sometimes with the elderly, or linked with disease, allergy, or drug reactions.
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As illustrated by articles in this issue about adiaspiromycosis (2), malaria (3,4), dengue (4), Chagas disease (5), Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (6), suspected Brazilian purpuric fever (7), and other infections, new diseases continue to emerge and old ones continue to undergo epidemiologic change throughout the vast Amazon River basin.
The status of infectious disease in the Amazon region by Tauil, Pedro Luiz / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Every child with purpuric rash and high fever should be treated as meningococcemia - until proven otherwise.
Meningococcemia - Facts About Meningococcemia by Ricky Hussey / Health, general community
Little Rhys Brady was found to have a purpuric rash - a major symptom of meningitis - when he was examined in Daisy Hill Hospital, Co Down, at 1am on May 16 last year.
Killed.. by a doctor's blunder; CORONER FINDS MEDIC FAILED TO SPOT ... by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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