Climate Change Facilitating the Spread of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) Virus in Europe

Climate Change Facilitating the Spread of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) Virus in Europe

The movement of ticks carrying the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus into more temperate regions due to warmer and shorter winters is a concerning consequence of climate change. This image shows CCHF viral particles (yellow) budding from the surface of cultured epithelial cells from a patient. (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/Universal Images Group via Getty …

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