Macedonia: Third case of Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever in the country, the patient is a 42-year-old man from Veles

360 (Machine Translated) The authorities inform that the patient had an elevated temperature up to 38 degrees, headache, body pain, malaise and profuse sweating. He was initially admitted to the General Hospital in Veles, and now he is at the Infectious Disease Clinic in Skopje. In the late evening hours of 12/08/2023, the Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at the IJZ was notified by phone about a positive result of Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever from the tests performed on material obtained from the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions. The tests were done at the Department of Virology at the IJZ. The sick person is a 42-year-old man from Veles, transferred to the Clinic from Veles General Hospital on the same day. “Five days before the examination at the hospital, the symptoms started – elevated temperature up to 38 degrees, headache, body pain, malaise and profuse sweating.”