ESTREMADURA-CONGO VIRUS | A case of hemorrhagic fever caused by the Crimean-Congo virus has been registered in the Placencia health district.

The Extremadura Health Service (SES) reports a confirmed case patient with hemorrhagic fever caused by Crimean-Congo virusin the Placencia health zone. This is 65 year old man He was hospitalized at the Virgen del Puerto Hospital and is currently in stable condition.

The patient had lived in Madrid and Plasencia for several days prior to the onset of symptoms, and the location where he was bitten by the tick is unknown.

He The patient will be transferred in the next few hours to the Gomez Ulla Hospital in Madrid.referral hospital for the treatment of this type of infection; a fact that reinforces the family’s request, being transferred patient from Madrid.

Since the SES became aware of this case, all the measures and actions established for this type of pathology have been implemented within RENAVE (Spanish National Epidemiological Surveillance Network), the Government of Extremadura said in a press release.