| Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is a zoonose caused by a virus of nairovirus genera, which maybe transmitted by ixodides ticks. The ostriches among other domestic and wild birds species are refractory to CCHF, but in humans the disease have shown to be lethal in 30% of the cases. The disease is disserninated in A ia, Africa and east of Europe. In the past few year in South Africa – The first country to produce and export ostriches, many cases of such disease were reported in people who work in slaughterhouses, as weU a people who deal with ostriches and/or diagnostic laboratory technician. |
