Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne natural epidemic virus disease distributed in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The disease is characterized by bleeding from the skin, mucous membranes, and viscera. The clinical manifestations are similar to other types of hemorrhagic fever, but the damage to the kidney is minor. Patients were usually severe at admission, with a fatality rate as high as 50%. The disease was named after successive discoveries in Crimea and Congo. First found in Bachu, Xinjiang, it is also called Xinjiang hemorrhagic fever in China. During the onset of headache, severe headache, especially severe forehead and temporal pain, facial expression was painful.

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