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. 2006 Sep;12(9):1424-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid1209.060002.

Lookback exercise with imported Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Senegal and France

Arnaud Tarantola  1 , Pierre Nabeth, Pierre Tattevin, Christian Michelet, Hervé Zeller; Incident Management Group
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Lookback exercise with imported Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Senegal and France

Arnaud Tarantola et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Sep.

Abstract

A patient with suspected malaria was hospitalized successively in 2 hospitals, first in Dakar, Senegal, then in Rennes, France, where tests diagnosed Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. An international incident management group was set up in France and Senegal, which traced 181 contacts and analyzed 50 samples from 3 countries. No secondary cases were identified clinically.

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