Crimean-Congo
Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is a viral haemorrhagic fever caused by RNA virus
(Nairovirus-family: Bunyaviridae). CCHF can cause severe infection in humans with a fatality rate of up to 25%-30%. CCHF is a zoonosis (by wild and domestic
animals) and widespread tick-borne(genus Hyalomma - family: Ixodidae). Due to
vertical or transovarian transmission of hereditary has been preserve in the
life cycle ticks, which helps keep to the viral reservoir in arthropod.
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| Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever |
CCHF
can cause severe infection in humans with a fatality rate of up to 25%-30%.
Typically sings are vomiting, headache, agitation, high fever, mood
instability, muscular pain, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, leukocytosis, mood
instability, mental confusion, throat petechiae, nosebleeds and black stools
with 1-7 days' incubation period. Infection has been reported in endemic areas
such as Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Read More>>>>>>>>
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