A 15-year-old boy became the seventh victim of 2019 of the dreaded Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), commonly known as Congo virus, in Karachi after officials at Dr Ruth KM Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) confirmed that the patient died due to complications of the disease at an isolation ...

QUETTA: A man died of Congo virus while under treatment at Fatima Jinnah T,B Sanatorium Hospital, hospital sources said on Tuesday. According to details, the patient Murad suffering from Congo virus was brought one day ago to the hospital with fever and he lost his battle with the deadly virus. ...

FAISALABAD, Sept 12 (APP): Additional Secretary Livestock Punjab Ashiq Hussain Dogar here on Monday said Punjab government has taken solid steps to eliminate Congo virus threat. He said, in this connection, the livestock department has also activated its entire machinery and staff. He said ...

LAHORE: (APP) Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Prof. Ghias Un Nabi Tayyab has said that Congo fever is a fatal disease which can be avoided only by adopting precautionary measures."So far no anti Congo vaccine has been discovered therefore we will have to be ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Health experts on Saturday advised the citizens to take special preventive measures to protect from carrying Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF).According to them, healthcare workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Congo virus, or handling specimens from them, ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) One more patient has died of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) on Friday in Quetta.About 84 patients have been shifted in Quetta's Fatima Jinnah General and Chest Hospital and atleast 22 of them have been confirmed with the disease whereas three are still under treatment,a ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): Health experts have warned the citizens to be careful against sacrificial animals carrying congo virus ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.According to them, there was a need for creating awareness in public, visiting animal markets, as well as those handling animals leftovers, buyers and ...

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) Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif met Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag in Istanbul and it was agreed to improve healthcare system in Punjab with the cooperation of Turkey. According to a handout issued here on Friday, the Chief Minister paid tributes to the Turk ...

LAHORE, Aug 21 (APP): Congo virus is not very dangerous for theinfected animals as they can cured through nominal support oranti-biotic treatment at veterinary centers. However,it becomes very dangerous when transmitted to human-beings,said vice-chancellor of the University of Veterinary and ...