Eid al Adha during CCHF transmission season poses a threat of exposing large population to this viral haemorrhagic fever. CCHF was first reported in Crimea in 1944. Oral ribavirin and general supportive therapy is the mainstay of treating CCHF case. Eid al Adha is a unique epidemiological event which shifts the risk of CCHF infection from high risk population to general population. During Eid, ...

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is an emerging tick-born zoonotic disease in India which is caused by Nairovirus of Bunyaviridae family. CCHF is reported from about 30 countries of the world. An outbreak of CCHF has been reported two years back in Gujarat which killed four people including two physicians, one nurse and a rural housewife. Tick bite, contact with infected material and noso...

This refers toDr. Levent Doganci’s letter published in your valuable Journal about Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) entitled “Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever as an indication for use of Ribavirin”.1 CrimeanCongo Hemorrhagic Fever is a widely distributed lethal disease, worldwide.2 Human are usually infected with CCHF virus through a tick bite or close contact with viral contaminated tissues or w...

BACKGROUND Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is endemic in certain areas of Pakistan with 14 outbreaks in addition to many sporadic cases so far. It is highly fatal zoonotic disease caused by bite of infected tick. The objective of our study is to describe clinical features, treatment and outcome of CCHF positive cases during its outbreak in Hazara division, with the intention to bring foc...

Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is one of the most severe viral zoonozes. It is prevalent throughout Africa, Asia and southern Europe. Limited availability of sequence data has hindered phylogeographic studies. The complete genomic sequence of all three segments of 14 Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus strains isolated from 1958-2000 in Russia, Central Asia and Africa was ident...

In 2002 and 2003, a total of 19 persons in Turkey had suspected cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) or a similar viral infection. Six serum samples were tested; all six were found positive for immunoglobulin M antibodies against CCHF virus. Two of the samples yielded CCHF virus isolates. Genetic analysis of the virus isolates showed them to be closely related to isolates from former...

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an acute, tick-borne viral disease, affecting only humans and newborn mice, with hemorrhagic manifestations and considerable mortality in humans. CCHF virus circulates in nature in an enzootic tick-vertebrate-tick cycle; migrating birds and livestock transferred from endemic to non-endemic areas may carry large numbers of infected ticks thus spreading t...