On how we retrospectively identified the first case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Spain

In this post I reproduce a recent article published in The Conversation (in Spanish) in which I described how we came across the first case so far of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever in Spain, which occurred (now we know) in 2013, three years before the first officially described case up to now. The work was developed in collaboration between my group at the Animal Health Research Center (CISA), at INIA-CSIC, the Majadahonda National Microbiology Center and the Salamanca University Hospital…