Medical examiners and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever contamination risk

• CCHF diagnosis was not a part of antemortem diagnosis.
• Undiagnosed CCHF cases place autopsy workers at risk.
• Sharing autopsy findings with medical team helps them with future CCHF diagnosis.

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is an acute zoonotic infection caused by the CCHF virus. The viruses' activity peaks during April and May with a mortality rate of 3–30%. Transmission of the virus to human occurs through tick bites or exposure to infected animals' tissues or blood. The major at-risk group includes farmers living in endemic areas. Health-care workers are the second most affected group. Virus has shown up in a diverse geographic area which includes Middle East, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe and is considered one of the most wide-spread tick borne infections. The most recent cases are from Iran and Turkey. This article represents autopsy results of four CCHF infected cases in 2011 and 2012, in Ankara, Turkey.