Contact tracing for an imported case of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever – Experience from a tertiary care center in Kerala, South India

• DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_1_19
• Publication Date: 2019-09-20T10:06:27Z
• Authors: Ronnie Thomas; Flossy Mathew; EdwinMathew Louis; Chithra Valsan; R Priyanka; Joe Thomas; Lucy Raphael
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Short Communication; 3. Good health

A 30-year-old male working in an abattoir in UAE returned home to Kerala, South India, after getting diagnosed with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever infection. He was admitted to a tertiary care center on the day of arrival and was placed under isolation. Due to the risk of spread of infection among health-care workers, contact-tracing and symptom-monitoring activities were undertaken. As strict standard contact precautions, isolation, contact identification and listing, quarantine, and sensitization of health-care workers were implemented, no secondary cases occurred.