• Doaa Adnan Shaker, Muna Tawfeeq Abd, Nawar Jassim Alsalih, Sinan Ghazi Mahdi, Mohenned Alsaadawi, Ihab Raqeeb Aakef, and Tareq Jafaar Aljandeel.
• Communicable Diseases Control Center, Zoonotic Diseases section, Baghdad, Iraq.
• Afr Health Sci. 2024 Mar 1; 24 (1): 596859-68.

BackgroundCCHF is transmitted via ticks biting and directly by contact with tissue or blood of infected patients or viremic animals. This study intends to determine the occurrence of CCHF in Iraq between 2015 and 2019.MethodsThis study was designed as a retrospective and descriptive cross-sectional study. It was approved the occurrence of CCHF in Iraq with relation to some epidemiological and demographic data reported in the Iraqi Communicable Diseases Control Center (CDC)/zoonotic diseases section between 2015-2019.ResultsOut of 206 suspected cases, only 17 were diagnosed as CCHF with a total fatality ratio of 52%, 25%, and 80% in 2015 and 2018 respectively. However, no mortality was reported during 2016, 2017, and 2019. The mean age of the patients was 33 years± 18 SD, in males mainly (76%). Moreover, the risk groups were 29 %, 23 %, 18 % 12 %, and 6 % for butchers, animal dealers, gainers, both housewives and students and children respectively.ConclusionStrict precautions and precise surveillance should be implemented to control the disease and protect the community by improving the diagnosis and treatment of CCHF. The authors recommend another future study to detect the genotyping and sequencing of CCHFV in Iraq.© 2024 Shaker DA et al.

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