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Farmer falls
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A patient with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) from northern Tokat province succumbed to the disease at the Sivas hospital where he was being treated.
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According to the Anatolia news agency, a tick bit the 37-year-old farmer while he was working in a field in a village in Tokat. He went to a hospital in Tokat and hospital staff removed the tick. After being released from the hospital he fell ill and went back to the hospital. He was transferred to Sivas Cumhuriyet University Research and Training Hospital, where he died despite medical attention. Reports say the farmer, a father of three, was buried in his village yesterday. Mostly infecting animals, CCHF is a viral disease transmitted by ticks. The virus can infect sheep and cattle in addition to humans and is fatal if not detected and treated early. It has been responsible for the deaths of more and more people in Turkey each year since its first recorded incidence in Turkey in 2002.
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20 August 2008, Wednesday
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