Open AccessEmerging diseases: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
Author(s) -
N Kuljić-Kapulica
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0410453k
Subject(s) - crimean–congo hemorrhagic fever , medicine , hyalomma , outbreak , tick , virus , virology , tick borne disease , abdominal pain , attack rate , influenza like illness , veterinary medicine , ixodidae
Recognized for many years in central Asia and Eastern Europe, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a severe zoonotic disease which affects people coming into contact with livestock or ticks. The range of the CCHF virus is now known to extend form central Asia to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and to most of Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa.