Climate change is believed to be causing Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever to spread across Europe
The virus has been described as the current biggest threat to public health, after initially breaking out in Iraq and Namibia.
The disease is caused by Nairovirus, a condition that is spread by ticks and according to the World Health Organization and it has has a fatality rate ranging from 10 and 40 percent. Top news stories today The likes of Spain were already seeing cases of the disease, Newsweek reported. WHO noted CCHF was among its nine "priority diseases", a system that lays bare the biggest public health risks.
In documented outbreaks of CCHF, fatality rates in hospitalised patients ranged from nine percent to as high as 50 percent. The long-term effects of CCHF infection have not been studied well enough in survivors to determine whether or not specific complications exist. However, recovery is slow.
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