Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge

Want to see the E22 local results forA worker from the health department disinfects the area around a house in the village of Al-Bojari in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, where a woman was infected with the tick-borne virus Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic illness , on May 25, 2022, during the country's worst detected outbreak of the illness.

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. "The CCHF virus is transmitted to people either by tick bites or through contact with infected animal blood or tissues during and immediately after slaughter," it adds.

The numbers are still tiny compared with the COVID-19 pandemic—where Iraq has registered over 25,200 deaths and 2.3 million recorded cases, according to WHO figures—but health workers are worried. They included the spread of ticks in the absence of livestock spraying campaigns during COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.

"Human-to-human transmission can occur resulting from close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected persons," it adds.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.

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