{"id":102376,"date":"2026-05-07T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/102376\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:41:17","slug":"iraqs-kirkuk-registers-first-cchf-case-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/102376\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Kirkuk registers first CCHF case of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-07T12:29:19+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Kirkuk<\/p>\n<p>Laboratory tests confirmed a case of<br \/>\nCrimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Iraq\u2019s northern province of Kirkuk, a<br \/>\nhealth source told Shafaq News on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The infected woman, 43, had been<br \/>\nplaced in quarantine a day earlier, while health authorities began preventive<br \/>\nmeasures and follow-up procedures.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shafaq News tracker,<br \/>\nIraq has recorded 10 CCHF cases so far in 2026, including nine in Dhi Qar<br \/>\nprovince, with the new infection marking Kirkuk\u2019s first confirmed case of the<br \/>\nyear. The province has reported six cases since the beginning of 2025, bringing<br \/>\nIraq\u2019s overall tally to 257 infections, including 38 deaths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Blood-ticks-and-broken-systems-The-resurgence-of-CCHF-in-Iraq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Blood, ticks, and broken systems: The resurgence of CCHF in Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778158141892.webp\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-07T12:29:19+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Kirkuk Laboratory tests confirmed a case of Crimean-Congo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1892,24225,94,35667,7007],"class_list":{"0":"post-102376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-1892","9":"tag-cchf","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-iraqs-kirkuk-registers-first-cchf-case-of-2026","12":"tag-kirkuk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116533584585144755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}