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special issue of „Progress in Medicine” consisting of 3 original and 5 review articles has been dedicated to selected, but current and emerging problems in the field of virology and mycology.

The largest ever epidemic of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which affected West African countries in 2014 and caused more than 10,000 deaths (acc. to the WHO report of 01.04.2015), now turned into its second phase, characterized by slowing the spread of infections and their gradual silencing. However, reported cases of disease and even deaths in Europe and the United States drew attention to the real risk associated with possible spread of the disease outside Africa. On this background, the proper diagnosis of hemorrhagic fever, a disease with such a heterogeneous etiology, becomes currently an extremely important new challenge for the Polish health care system. In this mater an article presented by Dr. Orzechowska from Wroclaw may be helpful. The author discusses the pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic fevers of different etiology, including their epidemiology and differences in the clinical presentation. Taking into account the changes in the environment, global warming and the possibility of rapid migration of people and animals from distant climate zones, in any situation of atypical symptoms of hemorrhagic fever the possibility of infection transfe

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