 has been described as the current biggest threat to public health and an expert told Mirror it spreads easily and is dangerous A killer virus sweeping through Europe will almost certainly reach the UK as an expert warned it's "a case of when and not if". And not even a lockdown - as experienced in a desperate bid to contain COVID-19 - will do much to prevent the spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), the expert told Mirror today. New cases of the virus are spreading across Europe and it's already killed people in Iraq, Pakistan and Namibia. Professor James Wood, who spoke to Parliament's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee last week, tonight told Mirror: "I mean, it's a kind of when rather than if, I think all in all likelihood. There is a risk of spread given the way that diseases emerging." The expert stressed a lockdown will "not be appropriate in any way" to contain CCHF, which causes unpleasant rashes, neck pain and other painful symptoms. Prof Wood, an academic at University of Cambridge, continued: "You'd be unlikely to get the sort of respiratory transmission. So even say, I don't want to call them extreme lockdown enthusiasts, but, someone who thinks that these measures are very important to, to impose straightaway, I don't think it would be appropriate as it's not right for this form of infection." Human-to-human transmission of CCHF is less likely than the transmission of the virus by ticks, typically carried by migratory birds from overseas. Global warming is causing more and more breeds to move to warmer climes and, with a return of June's heatwave considered, CCHF is likely to transmit in UK. But Brits can take measures, the lecturer suggests, like wearing long trousers when walking in tick-dense areas, like long grassland. The parasitic arachnids are also carried by animals, like sheep and goats, so Prof Wood highlighted farmers as particularly vulnerable to infection. When ticks bite people a){kind=link}
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been described as the current biggest threat to public health and an expert told Mirror it spreads easily and is dangerous
A killer virus sweeping through Europe will almost certainly reach the UK as an expert warned it’s “a case of when and not if”.
And not even a lockdown – as experienced in a desperate bid to contain COVID-19 – will do much to prevent the spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), the expert told Mirror today.
New cases of the virus are spreading across Europe and it’s already killed people in Iraq, Pakistan and Namibia. Professor James Wood, who spoke to Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee last week, tonight told Mirror: “I mean, it’s a kind of when rather than if, I think all in all likelihood. There is a risk of spread given the way that diseases emerging.”
The expert stressed a lockdown will “not be appropriate in any way” to contain CCHF, which causes unpleasant rashes, neck pain and other painful symptoms. Prof Wood, an academic at University of Cambridge, continued: “You’d be unlikely to get the sort of respiratory transmission. So even say, I don’t want to call them extreme lockdown enthusiasts, but, someone who thinks that these measures are very important to, to impose straightaway, I don’t think it would be appropriate as it’s not right for this form of infection.”