Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death.
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Doctors at a hospital in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, examine a patient infected with the tick-borne virus Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic illness (CCHF), on May 25, 2022, during the country's worst detected outbreak of the illness. - The CCHF virus has no vaccine and onset can be swift, with a victim suffering from severe bleeding, both internally as well as externally and especially from the nose. It causes death in as many as two-fifths of cases, according to medics. -- Photo: Asaad Niazi / AFP
2022-05-29 11:06:35
Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death.
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.
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