Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) cases reported by Russian ProMED
Journal: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Year: 2018

Background: Several countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have annual cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF). Russian ProMED-mail (http://promedmail.org/ru) is one of ProMED's regional networks that offers Russian language reports on emerging infection outbreaks relevant to 15 countries of Newly Independent States (NIS). We have reviewed Russian ProMED (ProMED-RUS) to assess epidemiologic situation on CCHF in 2016-2017 in comparison with the cases reported in 2005-2015 period bas