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<\/a>Image\/CDC<\/p>\nShe presented at the health facility with fever, muscle and body pain, vomiting, bleeding and meningoencephalitis. CCHF virus was confirmed by PCR and ELISA by the Institut Pasteur in Dakar.<\/p>\n
The case has no history of travel. She is the second CCHF case of 2026\u2014 A case was reported in February <\/a>in a 7-year-old child from Tambacounda region.<\/p>\n Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: An interview with Dr Judy Stone<\/a><\/p>\n The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks.<\/p>\n Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever 101<\/a><\/p>\n CCHF outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 40%.<\/p>\n The virus is primarily transmitted to people from ticks and livestock animals. Human-to-human transmission can occur resulting from close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected persons.<\/p>\n CCHF is endemic in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, in countries south of the 50th parallel north.<\/p>\n There is no vaccine available for either people or animals.<\/p>\n Related news from Africa:<\/p>\n Anthrax outbreak in western Uganda<\/a><\/p>\n DRC: More than 4,600 cases of cholera reported in South Kivu in 1st quarter of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n