Spain Confirms Case of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever

Azhar Assadi, a doctor working with the health department of Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, examines the files of patients infected by the tick-borne virus Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), on May 25, 2022. Asaad Niazi/AFP via Getty Images

MADRID—A middle-aged man has been admitted to hospital in Spain’s Castile and Leon region after being diagnosed with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), authorities said on Thursday.

The disease, which has a fatality rate between 10n percent and 40 percent according to the World Health Organization (WHO), was first detected in Crimea in 1944.