Stavropol residents died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

In the Stavropol region recorded this year's first case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever with fatal REGNUM reported. After the Territorial Rospotrebnadzor just in the region had 10 cases of this dangerous infection, which three times higher than the same period last year. As indicated in the management of cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) were registered in eight districts of the Stavropol region. Most disease is a severe and moderate forms. Crimea (Crimean-Congo) hemorrhagic fever -. Viral natural focal infections, which are the reservoir of small mammals Human beings are a disease, usually transmitted through the bites of ticks. Previously warned the Federal Service of the natural foci of activation and growth of the seasonal occurrence of CHF in some regions of the Southern Federal District of Russia. According to the federal agency, in 2007, in Russia, there were 234 cases of CCHF, the 17% more than the year before.