Tick-borne disease -- Russia
Russian specialists have discovered a new virus that causes fever symptoms. According to Izvestia, the new pathogen was named Manych after the Manych River in southern Russia. The virus was found in blood serum samples from people from medical institutions in the Rostov region with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF).
According to experts, Manych can be infected from a tick bite. At the same time, together with CCHF, it is capable of causing a viral infection in humans with
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