A man died on Saturday after contracting Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) following a tick bite in Spain, reports said. CNN This Tuesday.
The patient, 74, died in Madrid from organ failure, according to US media, citing a spokesman for the La Paz-Carlos III Hospital. The septuagenarian was admitted to the hospital on July 19, saying he had a fever and general malaise. He had been bitten by a tick in the town of Buenaspodas, in the central province of Toledo, a few days earlier.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever Confirmed Two days later, by local health authorities. The patient was then transferred to a “high-level isolation unit at the University Hospital La Paz-Carlos II”, with people who had been in contact with the patient being monitored, the hospital said. The man died a week after this announcement.
“There will undoubtedly be more cases” of FHCC in Spain, Consuelo Jiménez Pardo, a professor of medical parasitology at the University of Alcalá in Madrid, told CNN, noting that between one and three cases are confirmed each year in the country since the first case was detected in 2016.
Pollution risks in France
In France, the virus was first detected in October 2023 in ticks collected from cattle, in the eastern Pyrenees and Corsica. Refers to public health in France.No human cases have been diagnosed in France so far. However, the risk of contamination has now been demonstrated because Hyalomma ticks infected with the virus are present in the south of France, the institute indicated last May.
“Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread disease caused by a tick-borne virus (nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. CCHF causes severe epidemics of viral hemorrhagic fever, with a mortality rate ranging from 10 to 40%,” notes the World Health Organization. On his dedicated page.
Symptoms of the malady that appear “from the health, myalgia (muscular organs), travellers, douleurs and food raiders, most of the people, most of the things, of your irritations and a photophobia (sensation) light). Patients may also experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and sore throat, “followed by sudden mood swings and confusion.”
