CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -CCHF has been reported in Iraq since 1979 when the disease was first diagnosed in ten patients.

Detailed explanation-2: -Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is found in Eastern Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union, throughout the Mediterranean, in northwestern China, central Asia, southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Asian-West African reassortment variant of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in humans was recorded for the first time in the country in a recent study of 34 cases in Gujarat reported in 2019.

Detailed explanation-4: -Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread disease caused by a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. The CCHF virus causes severe viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks, with a case fatality rate of 10–40%.

Detailed explanation-5: -The pathogen The disease was first identified in 1944 in Crimea (Crimean haemorrhagic fever), while the virus was first isolated in 1956 in Congo (Congo virus), resulting in the current name of the virus and the disease.