Dear Editor, First of all, we would like to thank our esteemed colleague for his/her criticism and for providing the opportunity to illuminate the point we did not emphasize in our article.

To the Editor—We read the paper of Mehmood et al1 with great interest. Their letter was based on a newspaper report of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) coinfection, and its scientific ...