WHO lists symptoms of deadly virus in Spain which kills '40 per cent' of patients it infects

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has flagged 17 symptoms to watch out for after a deadly virus in Spain which kills over 40 per cent of its patients was detected.

It comes as the UK Foreign Office issued a warning today after travellers were urged to watch out for Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF). Cases related to this virus have surged across Europe, and have now been found in Spain. According to the regional Government of Castile-Leon, a patient is in hospital in a serious but stable condition after being diagnosed with the virus in question, reports BirminghamLive.

Website Travel Health Pro has now shared details about the case, and said: "The patient remains admitted, stable in serious condition, at the Salamanca Hospital, where the protocolized epidemiological and care measures have been adopted. The confirmed case is an elderly man who is admitted to the Salamanca Hospital with a clinical picture compatible with CCHF. He has a tick bite and remains stable, although with the clinical severity that this pathology implies, with the isolation measures and protection of health professionals provided for these situations."

According to the World Health Organisation, symptoms of this serious disease includes a fever and muscle ache, as well as dizziness, neck pain, backache, headache, sore eyes, sensitivity to light and nausea. As well as that, cases have been found to suffer from:

  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
  • Abdominal pain
  • Sore throat
  • Sharp mood swings
  • Confusion
  • Sleepiness
  • Depression
  • Fast heart rate
  • Enlarged lymph nodes
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WHO lists 1 7 symptoms of deadly virus in Spain which kills '40 per cent' of patients it infects (msn.com)
 
17 symptoms?

That's more than 5, so by the rules of the psychosomatic cinematic universe, this is clearly a case of the mass hysterias.

I don't make the rules, those are the rules. It's written in plain language in all their stuff, any more than a handful of possible symptoms and that's the default answer.

Somehow I think they'd make an exception for themselves if it happened to them...

Although this raises a newly all-important question: is it really 40% of the patients it infects? Or is asymptomatic or low symptomatic infection much more common than previously believed/asserted?

Because it changes everything. We're seeing it with H5N1. They only test animals showing symptoms, but they found viral particles in 40% of milk tested in the US, which means that it's far, far more widespread than reported. And then of course there's the new taboo on reporting illness.
 
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