‘Serious’ holiday warning as deadly tiger mosquitoes found in TWO hotspots
A MAN has died in Spain after being bitten by a tick and contracting a deadly disease with "pandemic potential".He had been rushed to the Rey Juan Carlos University Hospital in Mostoles on July 19 after being bitten by a tick near his weekend home in Buenasbodas in Toledo, around 100 miles southwest of the Spanish capital.
During the hearing on emerging diseases, Professor James Wood, head of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, said CCHF may travel to Britain "through our ticks at some point". "The reliance of ticks as vectors for transmission does reduce the likelihood of widespread infection, but this is an extremely serious infection if acquired.”A woman received specialist treatment for the disease at the Royal Free Hospital in London after travelling to central Asia.
“It’s important to be aware that Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is usually spread by tick bites in countries where the disease is endemic, it does not spread easily between people and the overall risk to the public is very low,” said Dr Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSA.THERE are a few things you can do to lessen your likelihood of tick bites.
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