Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is an often fatal infectious disease caused by Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), an orthonairovirus in the order Bunyavirales of -ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Ixodoidea ticks. The diseases were first recognized in the 1940s in Crimea and then in the 1950s and 1960s in Congo. They were the same, because the isolated viruses were the same.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D49 Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
H00284 Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H00284 Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever