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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
WHO investigating Congo fever in Karachi - Reuters
A three-member medical team has been despatched to Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi to oversee the health situation after reports of some 40 suspected cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) over the last two months. At least two people suspected of having contracted CCHF, including one female doctor, died last week, according to health officials.
Health authorities on Sunday sent blood samples from the five suspected CCHF patients to the National Institute of Virology in South Africa for further tests to ascertain the disease. CCHF is one of the severest human viral diseases. Symptoms include headaches, muscular pain, vomiting, massive bleeding through the nose, mouth and ears and internal organs. According to WHO officials, 200 cases of CCHF have been reported since the first case appeared in 1976, out of which some 63 people had died of the disease.
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