INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KARACHI: A woman lost her life to Congo virus at the city Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Tuesday fitting the first reported death of
the year in Pakistan owing to the disease
Reports revealed that a 35-year-old woman, resident of Karachi Orangi Town had been brought to the Jinnah Hospital in a critical condition
It was confirmed by the hospital Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali that the patient had been contaminateed with the Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) which later took her life
The disease is transmitted to the body through a tick that attaches itself to the skin of cattle that transports the virus from the animal
to people who come in contact with it
As per reports by the World Health Organization, the virus is said to have a fatality rate ranging from 10 percent to 40 percent with its
symptoms being fever, muscle aches, faintness, neck and back aches, sore eyes, sensitivity to light, nausea, diarrhea and sore throat
Final year, the city come acrossed 41 people contaminateed by the disease out of which 16 lost their lives.TheIndianSubcontinent has not
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