27/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published, on 20 July, a note concerning outbreaks of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Turkey. One hundred and fifty laboratory confirmed cases have been located in six provinces in Central Anatolia (Tokat, Gümüshane, Amasya, Corum, Yozgat and Sivas) in a region with little tourism. Fifteen deaths have been recorded. This Nairovirus virus of the Bunyaviridae group first appeared in Turkey in 2002....