Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever is becoming a major disease in many countries, but particularly in Montenegro. Montenegro may not seem like much of a concern, but it badly needs your help. The Organization for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries would be the perfect charity to help me raise awareness and fight Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Montenegro. Before explaining to you my proposal for the treatment and prevention of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, I would like you to better understand this disease. “Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is one of the most widely distributed viral hemorrhagic fevers » (Crimea-Congo, 2007). “It’s very common in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia; in countries south of the 50th parallel north” (WHO, 2013). This disease is transmitted by ticks and livestock. Sheep, cattle and goats are typical hosts of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. “These animals are infected by the bite of an infected tick and the virus remains in their blood for about a week after infection, allowing the tick-animal-tick cycle to continue when another tick bites” (WHO , 2013). Although many types of ticks can be vectors, the most common tick vector of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is the Hyalomma tick. Hyalomma ticks store the virus in their bodies and transmit it to animals and humans. (Crimea-Congo). Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever can be fatal when a human is infected, but may not be apparent in an animal (Crimea-Congo, 2007). "The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus is transmitted to humans either by tick bite or by contact with blood or tissues of infected animals during and ...... middle of paper ...... drawn from http://www.natap.org/2003/Jan/011403_4.htmMaltezou, HC (December 8, 2011). BMC Medicine | Full text | Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: epidemiological trends and treatment controversies. Accessed October 26, 2013 from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/9/131 Saijo, M., Morikawa, S. and Kurane, I. (2010). Medscape: access to Medscape. Retrieved November 1, 2013, from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/735170_3What Is Antigen Detection? (nd). Retrieved November 1, 2013 from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-antigen-detection.htmWHO | Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. (2013, January). Retrieved October 20, 2013 from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs208/en/WJ, E. (April 1998). The interest of a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain... [J Urol. 1998] - PubMed - NCBI. Accessed October 22, 2013 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9507816