{"id":454567,"date":"2022-05-29T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/deadly-nose-bleed-fever-shocks-iraq-as-cases-surge\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:37:15","slug":"deadly-nose-bleed-fever-shocks-iraq-as-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/deadly-nose-bleed-fever-shocks-iraq-as-cases-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"#Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c56561f9ec\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c56561f9ec\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/deadly-nose-bleed-fever-shocks-iraq-as-cases-surge\/#%E2%80%9CDeadly_nose-bleed_fever_shocks_Iraq_as_cases_surge%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDeadly_nose-bleed_fever_shocks_Iraq_as_cases_surge%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                                        Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq&#8217;s worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death.\n                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever spreads, jumping from animals to humans.<\/p>\n<p>This year Iraq has recorded 19 deaths among 111 CCHF cases in humans, according to the Word Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The virus has no vaccine and onset can be swift, causing severe bleeding both internally and externally and especially from the nose. It causes death in as many as two-fifths of cases, according to medics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of cases recorded is unprecedented,&#8221; said Haidar Hantouche, a health official in Dhi Qar province.<\/p>\n<p>A poor farming region in southern Iraq, the province accounts for nearly half of Iraq&#8217;s cases.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years, cases could be counted &#8220;on the fingers of one hand&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Transmitted by ticks, hosts of the virus include both wild and farmed animals such as buffalo, cattle, goats and sheep, all of which are common in Dhi Qar.&#13;<br \/>\u2014Tick bites\u2014<\/p>\n<p>In the village of Al-Bujari, a team disinfects animals in a stable next to a house where a woman was infected. Wearing masks, goggles and overalls, the workers spray a cow and her two calves with pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>A worker displays ticks that have fallen from the cow and been gathered into a container.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Animals become infected by the bite of infected ticks,&#8221; according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CCHF virus is transmitted to people either by tick bites or through contact with infected animal blood or tissues during and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely after slaughter,&#8221; it adds.<\/p>\n<p>The surge of cases this year has shocked officials, since numbers far exceed recorded cases in the 43 years since the virus was first documented in Iraq in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>In his province, only 16 cases resulting in seven deaths had been recorded in 2021, Hantouche said. But this year Dhi Qar has recorded 43 cases, including eight deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are still tiny compared with the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014where Iraq has registered over 25,200 deaths and 2.3 million recorded cases, according to WHO figures\u2014but health workers are worried.<br \/>\n                                            <!-- Google middle Adsense block --><\/p>\n<p>Endemic in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans, CCHF&#8217;s fatality rate is between 10 and 40 percent, the WHO says.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO&#8217;s representative in Iraq, Ahmed Zouiten, said there were several &#8220;hypotheses&#8221; for the country&#8217;s outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>They included the spread of ticks in the absence of livestock spraying campaigns during COVID in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;very cautiously, we attribute part of this outbreak to global warming, which has lengthened the period of multiplication of ticks,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;mortality seems to be declining&#8221;, he added, as Iraq had mounted a spraying campaign while new hospital treatments had shown &#8220;good results&#8221;.&#13;<br \/>\u2014Slaughterhouses under scrutiny\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Since the virus is &#8220;primarily transmitted&#8221; to people via ticks on livestock, most cases are among farmers, slaughterhouse workers and veterinarians, the WHO says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human-to-human transmission can occur resulting from close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected persons,&#8221; it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside uncontrolled bleeding, the virus causes intense fever and vomiting.<\/p>\n<p>Medics fear there may be an explosion of cases following the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in July, when families traditionally slaughter an animal to feed guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the increase in the slaughter of animals, and more contact with meat, there are fears of an increase in cases during Eid,&#8221; said Azhar al-Assadi, a doctor specialising in haematological diseases in a hospital in Nasiriya.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those infected were &#8220;around 33 years old&#8221;, he said, although their age ranges from 12 to 75.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have put in place disinfection campaigns and are cracking down on abattoirs that do not follow hygiene protocols. Several provinces have also banned livestock movement across their borders.<\/p>\n<p>Near Najaf, a city in the south, slaughterhouses are monitored by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The virus has adversely hit meat consumption, according to workers and officials there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to slaughter 15 or 16 animals a day\u2014now it is more like seven or eight,&#8221; said butcher Hamid Mohsen.<\/p>\n<p>Fares Mansour, director of Najaf Veterinary Hospital, which oversees the abattoirs, meanwhile noted that the number of cattle arriving for slaughter had fallen to around half normal levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are afraid of red meat and think it can transmit infection,&#8221; he said.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                                                                        Northern Iraq registers Congo fever death\n                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge (2022, May 29)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 29 May 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2022-05-deadly-nose-bleed-fever-iraq-cases.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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