A deadly virus that makes people bleed from their eyes has made its way over to Europe.
A man in Spain has been hospitalised after contracting Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) after being bitten by a tick.
CCHF is a viral fever that was first detected in Crimea in 1944 and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), it has a mortality rate of between 10 to 40 percent.
The infection has an incubation period of usually five to six days and symptoms include fever, aches, dizziness and vomiting.
As the illness progresses, patients experience large areas of severe bruising, severe nosebleeds, and uncontrolled bleeding at injection sites, particularly in the eyes and on the skin.
CCHF is endemic in all of Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, and is usually contracted through tick bites or contact with animal blood or tissue.
The middle-aged man was first admitted to a local hospital in the city of León last week before being moved to another hospital on a military plane, the Defense Ministry said.
Spanish authorities said the patient remains in a stable condition "despite the clinical severity that this pathology implies".
Only three cases have been detected in Spain, with the first case in 2011 and in 2016 a Spanish man died from the disease.
