Healthcare Minister urges vigilance while disclosing CCHF signs
ANA. July 22. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ Minister of Healthcare Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev urged the citizens of the southern Kazakhstan to be more vigilant while disclosing signs of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. The Minister said it while answering the journalists' questions during the First International Congress of Neurosurgeons in Astana. The disease was registered in Kyzylorda and Zhambyl regions. Ixodid ticks are the circulators of the disease.
According to Z. Doskaliev the first outbreak of the disease was recorded in Turkestan. It took away two doctors' lives. The next cases were observed in Sairam district of the South Kazakhstan oblast and Shieli district of Kyzylorda oblast. "The situation is under control now; all people who contacted them have been registered", Z. Doskaliyev said.
The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is an acute infectious disease of man spread through tick-bites and is characterized by a fever, intoxication, hemorrhage on a skin and internal organs. The first CCHF case was reported in 1944 in Crimea. In 1945 germ of the infection was discovered. Similar diseases were revealed in Kongo in 1956.