A woman with an Ebola-like illness in the UK

uA woman in the UK has been diagnosed with a viral disease transmitted by ticks and farm animals which the mirror has described as similar to Ebola.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever has a mortality rate of 40% and is present in countries where the disease is endemic.

Symptoms are similar to those of Ebola — fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal or muscle pain, headache and sore throat — but in this case, human-to-human transmission is not.

The British woman had recently traveled to Central Asia and was diagnosed at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently receiving specialist treatment at the Royal Free Hospital, London.

Susan Hopkins, chief medical advisor at the UK’s Health Security Agency, said the virus “does not spread easily between people and the general risk to the public is very low”, but work is underway to trace people who have been in close contact with the infected woman to advise them.

The disease was first described in Crimea in 1944 and called Crimean hemorrhagic fever, according to the World Health Organization. Those who recover, get better on the 9th or 10th day.

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