Two more persons died due to Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) at separate health facilities in Karachi on Friday, health officials said, adding that three people had died because of dreaded, tick-borne viral disease in the city in two days. “Zahid Ahmed, 29-year-old patient from Organi ...

KARACHI: Deadly Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) has claimed the life of a youngster at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Monday after which the death toll due to the Congo mounted to three this year. Executive Director, JPMC, Dr. Seemi Jamali, while talking to PPI, confirmed the death of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) has organized an awareness seminar on 'Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) prevalence in Pakistan'.The main objective of the event was to educate the participants about CCHF and adaption of the precautionary measures to avoid the ...

LAHORE: (APP) Congo fever is a fatal disease which can be warded off only by adopting precautionary measures.Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Prof. Ghias Un Nabi Tayyab said this while addressing a clinical symposium on awareness about Congo virus at auditorium ...

LAHORE: (APP) A delegation of experts, including Dr Ebru Arydin and Dr Dilek Meneminilogo, from the Turkish Public Health Institute, Turkey, visited the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) on Friday and discussed various measures to contain/control the congo fever virus. The UVAS ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): A public health specialist at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Dr Wasim Khawaja said on Tuesday that special isolation ward in PIMS had been established for Congo fever patients to provide them best medical treatment.Talking to PTV , he said after the surfacing of ...