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Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever — Pakistan
Congo fever toll mounts to 6 as another death reported Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has claimed another life in Karachi
this month [September 2017], bringing the total deaths due to the tick-borne viral disease to 6 in the country this year [2017].
A 52-year-old [SGS], a resident of Mujahid Colony in Orangi Town, was brought to the Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) on the night of [Sun 10 Sep 2017] in an unstable condition, the health facility’s spokesman, Anjum Rizvi, told The