Sep 3, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
First up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how climate is pushing the disease-carrying tick *Hyalomma marginatum* out of its comfort…
Veronika BókonyGuestRichard Stone[upbeat music] Now we have Rich Stone, the senior international correspondent for our news team.
Why was that the place to be to talk about this virus that lives in a tick and infects people?
And this tick-borne disease is a hemorrhagic fever, which is pretty rare in Europe.
We hear a lot about hemorrhagic fevers in kind of warmer areas, I guess you would say, and this is called Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever because it's been found in two places, and they combined it for this lovely name.
It starts flu-like symptoms, then people with the severe disease can develop excessive bleeding and eventual death.
The apparent mortality rate in Kosovo and some other Balkan countries, for example, is quite high, on the order of 20 to 25%.
When you say apparent, is that just because we don't really have a good denominator or, like, really solid data on how many cases there are?
The people who come down with severe illness are really the tip of the iceberg, that you're seeing a lot more transmission of the virus, but asymptomatic or very mild illness that doesn't get reported.
A place like Kosovo where this is kind of an established disease, what do they see in a year or five years?
[upbeat music] Now we have Rich Stone, the senior international correspondent for our news team.
Why was that the place to be to talk about this virus that lives in a tick and infects people?
And this tick-borne disease is a hemorrhagic fever, which is pretty rare in Europe.
We hear a lot about hemorrhagic fevers in kind of warmer areas, I guess you would say, and this is called Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever because it's been found in two places, and they combined it for this lovely name.
It starts flu-like symptoms, then people with the severe disease can develop excessive bleeding and eventual death.
The apparent mortality rate in Kosovo and some other Balkan countries, for example, is quite high, on the order of 20 to 25%.
When you say apparent, is that just because we don't really have a good denominator or, like, really solid data on how many cases there are?
The people who come down with severe illness are really the tip of the iceberg, that you're seeing a lot more transmission of the virus, but asymptomatic or very mild illness that doesn't get reported.
A place like Kosovo where this is kind of an established disease, what do they see in a year or five years?
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