Four of the most deadly diseases of the world (Zika, Dengue, CCHF, RVF) are coming in the UK due to climate change reports the British newspaper Daily Mail, citing British epidemiologists. These are mosquitoes and ticks that carry viruses with death rates of up to 50% experts warn.

The illness Zika virus and Dengue fever will spread to British soil, they warned.

The diseases, which are spread by mosquitoes and ticks, will reach Britain as rising temperatures “broaden their range”, British scientists told MPs today.

One of their biggest concerns is Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) — a disease with a mortality rate of almost 40%. Rift Valley Fever, (“RVF”) another potential threat, can be even more deadly, the evidence suggests.

Initial infections may go unnoticed because NHS doctors are unfamiliar with foreign pathogens, they also pointed out.

The World Health Organization (WHO), which ranks CCHF as one of the nine “priority diseases” of him, he warned that he has already arrived in France.

Professor James Wood, head of veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge, told MPs on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee that it was “very likely” CCHF would reach the UK in the future.

He also said Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a mosquito-borne virus that can kill up to half of patients which contract a severe form of the disease, is another pathogen likely to end up in the UK. “There are other infections that could be transmitted by mosquitoes, such as Rift Valley fever that could be the next thing to arrive,” he stressed. And he warned that such pathogens they may not be noticed at first, as NHS doctors are not trained to detect these diseases.

RVF is a viral disease that occurs most often in domestic animals in sub-Saharan Africa, including cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels.

People can contract RVF through contact with the blood, body fluids, or tissues of infected animals or through bites from infected mosquitoes. Most people who get RVF either have no symptoms or the symptoms are mild, such as a cold with fever, weakness, back pain, and dizziness.

While humans can contract RVF from mosquitoes that transmit the infection from an animal no infection has been recorded from human to human.

Zika, compared to other pathogens, is not famous for its fatality rate but for its devastating consequences causing to the health of unborn children.

The pathogen is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected female mosquitoes. Very rarely, it can be transmitted through sex, says the NHS.

It is noted that in a map presented by the Daily Mail there are three colors in terms of degrees of danger in terms of hemorrhagic fever. Greece is in the lowest tier, in yellow:

  • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virological or serological evidence and presence of vector (yellow)
  • 5 to 49 reported cases of CCHF per year (orange)
  • 50 or more reported cases of CCHF per year (red)

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