Table 1.

Clinical features of patients on admission

	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5
Gender	Female	Female	Female	Female	Female
Age (years)	34	20	49	50	46
Appearance	Average built	Overweight	Overweight	Overweight	Average built
Co-morbidities			DM	DM, HT	DM, Dyslipidaemia
Duration of fever on admission (Days)	3	4	5	3	5
Presenting complaints	Fever	Fever	Fever	Fever	Fever
	- Headache	- Myalgia	- Myalgia -	- Myalgia	- Vomiting
	- Vomiting	-Headache	- Diarrhoea	- Headache	- PV bleeding
	- Diarrhoea	- Menses	- Vomiting
Cardiovascular system	Pulse – weak	Pulse-100 bpm	Pulse-100 bpm, low volume	BP – 160/100 mmHg which dropped to 110/60 mmHg	Pulse - weak
	BP-unrecordable	BP – 80/60 mmHg	BP - unrecordable		BP – 80/50 mmHg
Evidence of plasma leak	Ascites B/L Pleural effusion	Right pleural effusion	Clear lungs No ascites	Right pleural effusion	Ascites B/L Pleural effusion
Progress	Recurrent shock	Recurrent shock	- Hepatic encephalopathy	Uncontrolled bleeding	Bleeding
			- Bleeding
Duration of illness at death (Days)	4	5	6	5	6

DM-diabetes mellitus, HT-hypertension, BP-blood pressure in mmHg, bpm-beats per minute, B/L-bilateral.