Climate change is pushing ticks carrying the deadly CCHF virus to move through Europe. The mortality rate is ~30% within 2 weeks. There is no widely-available vaccine.

I remember seeing billboards my first summer in Sverige saying to get vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), another virus I had never heard about in the US.

#CCHF #ticks #climateChange #publicHealth

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/07/climate-change-is-helping-this-new-deadly-virus-to-spread-across-europe

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever: Deadly tickborne virus that’s spreading in Europe ‘likely to reach UK’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/virus-uk-crimean-congo-hemorrhagic-fever-b2375926.html

#Ticks
#CrimeanCongoHaemorrhagicFever
#CCHF
#TickBorneIllness
#TickBorneVirus
#ClimateChange
#WHO

@onisillos Tick-borne pathogens do not receive enough attention at the public health & academic/research levels (esp here in the US). Far too many primary care providers are ignorant of the range of signs & symptoms, and many medical insurance companies will not cover diagnostic assays in a timely matter. Also, the two accepted diagnostic assays (ELISA & Western blot) are fraught with issues & vaccine R&D is severely lacking. This is troubling. #ticks #LymeDisease #CCHF #TBE

RT @outbreaksci
New preprint: Predicting climate-driven distribution shifts in Hyalomma marginatum (Ixodidae) http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.01.535198 #CCHF

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