Turkey is battling the largest ever recorded outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, which has killed at least 20 people this year, and experts today said more cases of the Ebola-like disease are inevitable in coming months.

TURKEY announced five more human cases of bird flu countrywide, bringing to 14 the number of people stricken by the lethal H5N1 virus and raising fresh alarms over its menacing westward advance.