Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)
Journal: InTech eBooks
Year: 2012

Russian scientists, led by Professor M.P.Chumakov, isolated the virus from human patients and from ticks. The same virus was isolated by C.Courtoise in 1956 from a 13 years old patient in the Belgium Congo. However, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic Fever has a much longer history, with the first record in the early 12th century. Although ticks transmit CCHF virus to a wide variety of animal species, the severe disease only affects humans. Cattle, sheep and small mammals, such as hares may develop mild