2023-07-29 00:36:31
Mauritania’s health ministry announced on Friday the death of a person with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever following the disease was diagnosed at his home in a neighboring country.
The director general of public health, Mohamed Mahmoud O. Ely Telmoud said that the epidemiological surveillance and investigation services identified the people who had been in contact with the deceased and placed them under control, affirming however that they are in good health and their condition is normal”.
He added that this is the first human case recorded in a Mauritanian during this year.
He further said that the ministry has dispatched investigative missions to the cattle that may have been the source of the disease in order to treat it and take the requested measures in this regard.
Mauritania had announced the discovery of the first case of this fatal haemorrhagic fever in February last year but the ministry had mentioned in its time the appearance of non-worrying cases of the disease recorded annually in Mauritania.
Mauritania had reported the discovery of 5 cases of the disease, three of which were cured and the other two died.
Crimean Congolese fever is one of the most dangerous haemorrhagic fevers known, and the World Health Organization says the virus that causes the disease is transmitted to humans by ticks and animals. breeding, while it is transmitted from person to person through contact with blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of the infected person.
The WHO notes that despite the early onset of this hemorrhagic fever, “there is no vaccine once morest the virus, either for humans or animals”.
The treatment protocol is limited to the treatment of only the symptoms that appear, and the permanent care of the patient.
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