The Health Security Agency has issued an alert against a possible emergence of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. It is a disease similar to the flu, but with a case fatality rate ranging from 10% to 40%.
The disease is transmitted by a specific variety of ticks: the Hyalomma tick. The latter has been present since 2015 in the south of France, on the Mediterranean coast. It will be able to expand and colonize a new area that is favorable to it.