CLINICAL-FEATURES OF CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC-FEVER IN THE UNITED-ARAB-EMIRATES

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (C-CHF) re-emerged recently in the Un ited Arab Emirates. The clinical outcome of 11 cases of viral haemorrh agic fever patients admitted to hospital between June 1994 and January 1995 is described, Four cases were laboratory confirmed retrospective ly as C-CHF, the other patients were diagnosed likely to have the same disease on epidemiological and clinical grounds. In 72.7% of the pati ents, infection was fatal. Symptoms started 3.5 days before hospitaliz ation. On admission, 81.8% of patients had high fever, 45.5% were vomi ting, 63.6% had diarrhoea, 45.5% had haemorrhagic signs, and 18.2% had throat pain, Fatalities occurred 6.8 days after admission. Survivors were hospitalized for 9.3 days. Nosocomial transmission was not observ ed.