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Ticks carrying Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever found in western and central Spain
21/04/2017
TICKS carrying the Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus have been found in four regions in Spain, but national health authorities assure that the risk of infection is 'extremely low'.
Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Madrid are affected after Hyalomma Marginatum ticks (pictured) were found and tested.
They were found to have infected wild animals, but the risk to humans is minimal, according to director-general for public health, quality and innovation, Elena Andradas.
Extensive research has been carried out across rural Spain since October, when a man from Madrid was bitten by a tick in the countryside of the province of Ávila, Castilla y León, and died two days later in intensive care.
He had gone to A&E at Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital, where his blood test results were found to be 'extremely alarming and odd' and he was rushed into the Carlos III hospital in the capital, the country's main centre for patients with highly-infectious, contagious and tropical diseases.
A nurse who treated him in A&E showed similar blood-test results hours later after she reported feeling feverish, but as medics had worked out what the problem was by then due to the death of the earlier man, they managed to treat her successfully.
No other cases have been detected in Spain, and the chances of catching the Haemorrhagic Fever virus are said to be one in several million.
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TICKS carrying the Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus have been found in four regions in Spain, but national health authorities assure that the risk of infection is 'extremely low'.
Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Madrid are affected after Hyalomma Marginatum ticks (pictured) were found and tested.
They were found to have infected wild animals, but the risk to humans is minimal, according to director-general for public health, quality and innovation, Elena Andradas.
Extensive research has been carried out across rural Spain since October, when a man from Madrid was bitten by a tick in the countryside of the province of Ávila, Castilla y León, and died two days later in intensive care.
He had gone to A&E at Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital, where his blood test results were found to be 'extremely alarming and odd' and he was rushed into the Carlos III hospital in the capital, the country's main centre for patients with highly-infectious, contagious and tropical diseases.
A nurse who treated him in A&E showed similar blood-test results hours later after she reported feeling feverish, but as medics had worked out what the problem was by then due to the death of the earlier man, they managed to treat her successfully.
No other cases have been detected in Spain, and the chances of catching the Haemorrhagic Fever virus are said to be one in several million.
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