On June 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the outbreak of CCHF haemorrhagic fever in Iraq.
In the first 5 months of the year alone, the country’s health authorities reported 97 confirmed cases of CCHF and 115 suspected cases. 27 people have died.
The disease was first recorded in the Crimea in 1944, the mortality rate of which was 10-40%.
According to who, the virus can be spread from person to person by contact with blood or body fluids.
Tick bites or contact with tissues of infected animals are also routes of transmission.
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