Close Contact Precautions Could Prevent an Outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: A Case Series Report from Southern Part of Tehran
This 41-year-old male construction worker, whose two brothers had died, denied any symptoms of fever, myalgia headache or abdominal pain, but on physical examination there were a few petechiae on buccal mucosa. He had neither close contact with his two dead brothers nor history of contact with domestic animals.\nLaboratory studies were within normal values. Empirical ribavirin was started for him with therapeutic dose.\nHis serum was obtained for evaluation of CCHF virus. He was discharged of hospital after 5 days without any complications, with oral ribavirin. His report of RT-PCR for CCHF virus was negative.