Beginning in October 2004 and continuing into 2005, the outbreak was the world's worst epidemic of any kind of viral haemorrhagic fever.
A suspected case of viral haemorrhagic fever has been reported in the Isiro district in March 2011.
There have also been recent outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever (a tick-borne disease) with renal syndrome in southern Kazakhstan.
In recent years there have been several confirmed reports of fatalities from haemorrhagic fever in this region.
This haemorrhagic fever is spread through blood and blood products, including those from infected animals.
There have been recent cases of the particularly dangerous form, haemorrhagic dengue fever.
Thousands of children are admitted each year to hospitals in Cambodia with Dengue haemorrhagic fever.
They cause severe haemorrhagic fever in humans with high rates of mortality, therefore they are lethal.
There is no specific treatment for dengue, but appropriate medical care frequently saves the lives of patients with the more serious dengue haemorrhagic fever.
Mina is seen to be a very thorough doctor, treating a man who presents with joint pain as though he has haemorrhagic fever.