The CCHF virus which has a fatality rate of up to 40% usually spreads to humans from cattle through tickbites or contact with meat after slaughter.
Oman’s Ministry of Health has reported six cases of the Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, CCHF, in a number of Omani governorates, and said one person died of the disease.
All of the CCHF patients had caught tick-born virus through contact with slaughtered or live stock animals already infected with the virus or hosting the tick vectors in their bodies, an official source from the Ministry of Health was quoted by Oman News Agency(ONA)
ONA noted that similar cases were reported over the past years in the country.
The CCHF virus which has a fatality rate of up to 40% usually spreads to humans from cattle through tickbites or contact with meat after slaughter and can cause severe viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO.
