context ebola hemorrhagic fever (ehf) is amongst severe and fatal viral hemorrhagic fevers. in february 2014, a strain of the ebola virus appeared in guinea and then in liberia, sierra leone, and mali. the aim of this study was to review the literature on ehf and discuss its routes of transmission and prevention. evidence acquisition we searched medical databases (pubmed, scopus) from july 1970...

conclusions the present study showed that cchf is highly prevalent in high risk occupational groups in zahedan, iran. further surveillance, teaching and prevention programs are recommended. results out of 362 patients with cchf (86% male, 14% female; with age range 12-78 years), 123 (34%) were slaughterhouse workers, 103 (28.5%) livestock handlers and farmers, 32 (9%) housewives, 7 (2%) student...

conclusions unexpected complications may be seen during the course of cchf. patients must be closely followed up. case presentation a 49-year-old male dealing with livestock husbandry was admitted to ankara training and research hospital with three days of complaints including fever, malaise, headache, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and hematuria. laboratory findings (thrombocytopenia and...

introduction crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by infection with a tick-borne virus from the family of bunyaviridae. this viral hemorrhagic fever is found throughout central asia, southern europe, africa and the middle east. transmission to humans occurs through contact with infected animals or tick bite. the first human cases of infectious hemorrhagic f...

introduction crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is an acute viral zoonotic disease, which is endemic in vast geographic areas including the middle east. the causative agent, crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus (cchfv), is a nairovirus, which is mainly transmitted to human from infected hard ticks and viremic livestock. discussion given that viremic livestock are the main source of cchf ou...

crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever is a fatal viral disease that occurs in some parts of africa, asia, eastern europe and the middle-east. primarily it is a zoonosis but can be seen sporadically in humans. recently outbreaks have been reported from pakistan, afghanistan, saudi arabia, united arab emirates and iran. in this retrospective study, we evaluated the efficacy of oral ribavirin in the tre...

since 1999, many cases of crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever have been reported from different parts of iran. this study intended to define cchf seroprevalence, incidence rates, and the most important risks in sistan- baluchestan province, iran. using cluster sampling with probability proportional to size, 310 subjects were selected from various districts of zahedan and zabol in the northern part ...

background: crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a disease characterized by serious course, including acute viral fever, ecchymosis, thrombocytopenia, liver dysfunction and high rate of mortality. hypoxia inducible factor-1α (hif-1α) and vascular endothelial growth factor-a (vegf-a) play an important role both in the inflamma­tory process and plasma leakage. the aim of this study was to de...

case presentation this article presents a 56-year-old woman from guilan province, the north of iran and the southern coast of the caspian sea, who admitted to the hospital with acute fever, severe headache, thrombocytopenia, anemia, epigastric pain, myalgia, nausea and vomiting. conclusions we recognized that the case was co-infected by cchf and leptospirosis. introduction infectious diseases a...

ebola hemorrhagic fever (ehf) was first reported in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever centered in yambuku (near the ebola river), democratic republic of congo, and also in nzara, sudan. the current outbreak of the ebola virus was started by reporting the first case in march 2014 in the forest regions of southeastern guinea. due to raising infection rates of ove...