Representatives of the World Health Organization made an important statement about the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever - a viral disease transmitted to humans through animals and ticks, as well as through the blood and secretions of other infected people.
It is reported that during severe outbreaks of the disease, mortality from it can reach forty percent. The worst thing is that there is no vaccine for this fever yet, and it is not known when it will appear. Recently it became known that a Spaniard died from the disease. Panic immediately began in Europe.
The Spanish newspaper El Espanol writes that a sixty-two-year-old citizen of the country contracted hemorrhagic fever while walking in the Castilla-Leon district of the province of Caceres. Experts suggest that the man was bitten by an infected tick. This is the first known case of such an infection in Western Europe. Despite the fact that the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever also affects the poorer regions of the planet, the World Health Organization has only now decided to seriously tackle this problem.
The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus was first identified in 1944 on the Soviet peninsula of Crimea. Twelve years later, this acute infectious disease was discovered in the African state of the Congo. From here it got its name.
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The virus has been repeatedly detected since 2010 in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Extremadura. In September of this year, the first person to die of the disease finally appeared in Europe. It is noteworthy that the patient managed to infect one of the nurses, but she was quickly isolated in the infectious diseases department of the hospital.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is endemic in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa and some Asian countries. In October 2012, a Londoner who visited Afghanistan died of this infection. This was the first and so far the only patient with such a diagnosis in the United Kingdom, according to British health agencies.
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Symptoms of this infection are fever, headache, joint pain, back and abdominal pain, vomiting, redness of the eyes, face, throat, and palate. As the disease progresses, the patient's body becomes covered with large hematomas. Epistaxis appears. In addition, the places where the patient receives injections, by the way, completely useless …