Boy treated for tick bite
A 10-year-old boy is being treated for a high fever at a hospital in Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece, after being bitten by a tick just days after a woman in nearby Komotini died from a similar insect bite. The 49-year-old woman died after being bitten by a tick while working on a farm. Tests showed that the insect had infected her with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. It was not clear if an infected tick had also bitten the boy. His mother said she took the child to a dermatologist who removed the tick but the boy then began to feel ill. Doctors at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis said on Saturday that the boy was running a high temperature but his overall condition gave no cause for alarm. Authorities in northeastern Greece have agreed to spray livestock on local farms with insecticide to kill any ticks carrying the fever. Doctors have advised anyone bitten by ticks not to try and remove the insect but to go to a hospital immediately.
