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World Health Organization representatives made statements an important statement on the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever – viral disease transmitted to humans through animals and ticks, as well as blood and secretions of other infected people.
Mortality reported during severe outbreaks 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 she will appear. Recently it became known that he died from a disease Hispanic. Panic immediately began in Europe.
The Spanish edition of “El Espanol” writes that sixty-two a citizen of the country contracted hemorrhagic fever when walked around Castilla Leon in the province of Cáceres. 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 Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever suffer in poorer regions of the planet, World Organization health care just now decided to seriously tackle this a problem.
Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus was first discovered in 1944 on the Soviet peninsula of Crimea. After twelve years old this acute infectious disease was discovered in the African state of Congo. From here it got its title.
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The virus has been detected repeatedly since 2010 in the Spanish Autonomous Region. community of Extremadura. This September in Europe, finally the first person to die from the disease appeared. Notably that the patient managed to infect one of the nurses, however her quickly isolated in the infectious ward of the hospital.
Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever is endemic an ailment in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa and some Asian countries. In October 2012, died of this infection. Londoner who visited Afghanistan. According to British health agencies, it was the first and so far the only a patient with such a diagnosis in the United Kingdom.
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Symptoms of this infection are high fever, headache, joint, back and stomach pains, vomiting, redness eye, face, throat and palate. As the disease progresses, the body the patient is covered with large hematomas. Nasal appears bleeding. In addition, places where injections are made to the patient, by the way, completely useless …
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