TY - JOUR AU - Nabeth, Pierre AU - Cheikh, Dah Ould AU - Lo, Baidy AU - Faye, Ousmane AU - Vall, Idoumou Ould Mohamed AU - Niang, Mbayame AU - Wague, Bocar AU - Diop, Djibril AU - Diallo, Mawlouth AU - Diallo, Boubacar AU - Diop, Ousmane Madiagne AU - Simon, François T1 - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Mauritania T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 12 SP - 2143 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From February to August 2003, 38 persons were infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in Mauritania; 35 of these persons were residents of Nouakchott. The first patient was a young woman who became ill shortly after butchering a goat. She transmitted the infection to 15 persons in the hospital where she was admitted and four members of her family. In Nouakchott, two disease clusters and 11 isolated cases were identified. The case-fatality ratio was 28.6%. Of the patients not infected by the first case-patient, almost half were butchers, which suggests that the primary mode of animal-to-human transmission was direct contact with blood of infected animals. The hospital outbreak alerted health authorities to sporadic cases that occurred in the following weeks, which would have probably gone otherwise unnoticed. Studies must be conducted to determine the potential risk for continued sporadic outbreaks of CCHF in humans and to propose prevention measures. KW - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever KW - Mauritania KW - Urban KW - Nosocomial KW - Hospital KW - Outbreak KW - Sheep KW - Tick KW - research DO - 10.3201/eid1012.040535 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/12/04-0535_article ER - End of Reference