(machine translated) Today, Friday, the Mauritanian Ministry of Health announced the death of a person due to the Crimean-Congolese hemorrhagic fever, after it was discovered that he was infected with the epidemic during his treatment in a neighboring country for a health condition.
The Director General of Public Health, Muhammad Mahmoud Ould Eal Mahmoud, said that the epidemiological monitoring and investigation services have identified the deceased’s contacts and placed them under control, “and they are now in good health and their condition is normal.”
He stressed that this “is the first human case of this disease to be recorded with a Mauritanian citizen during the current year.”
He explained that the ministry has dispatched missions to investigate animals that could be a source of fever, to treat them and take the required measures in this regard.