title: Current situation of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Anatolia and Balkan Peninsula
abstract: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral disease transmitted to humans mainly by bite of Ixodid ticks, mainly those of the Hyalomma genus. CCHFV belongs to the genus Nairovirus in the family Bunyaviridae. CCHF virus is a segmented, single stranded, negative sense and RNA viruses. The onset of the disease is very sudden, with symptoms such as fever, rigors, intense headache, chills, and backache or leg pains, myalgia, nausea, and vomiting. CCHF originally identified in the former Soviet 
journal: Turkish Bulletin of Hygiene and Experimental Biology