Pakistan has registered three deaths of the Congo virus on Thursday, with two deaths reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and one in Karachi, said Express News.
The last victim in Sindh was a 25 -year fisherman from Ibrahim Hyderi, while KP’s toll includes Karak and Waziristan’s patients from the North.
According to health officials, Muhammad Zubair, resident of the Malir district, exhibited for the first time symptoms that include high fever, muscle pain, abdominal discomfort, cough, diarrhea, bleeding and loss of consciousness on June 16.
He was admitted to the Jinnah hospital, where doctors suspected Congo virus infection. Due to the lack of specialized treatment facilities, he was transferred to the Hospital of Infectious Diseases of Sindh, where he died at 7 am on June 19.
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The Sindh Health Department has quickly sent an active search and response team to the affected area. Contact tracking efforts have been carried out, with all the people who had close contact with the late identified and monitored.
Until now, no other cases have been reported. The local residents have been advised and the victim’s family who follows the strict precautionary measures to avoid greater propagation.
This death follows the first mortality of the province of the virus earlier this year, when a 42 -year -old man from the Malir district was admitted to the Indo Hospital in Korangi on June 16 and died the next day.
In KP, two patients with Congo viruses from the districts of Karak and northern Wazirist died in the Hayatabad medical complex. These deaths have raised the number of provincial deaths to three.
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Meanwhile, three additional patients infected with the virus are currently receiving the treatment of isolation rooms in the hospital. Health Advisor Ehtesham Ali said the contact tracking and disinfection operations have begun in the houses of the deceased and the infected.
He added that a warning had been circulated with respect to the Congo virus to all Pakistan hospitals before Eidul Azha, as the increase in movement and slaughter of sacrifice animals increase the risk of transmission.
The Congo virus is a severe viral disease mainly transmitted through tick bites or contact with the blood and tissues of infected animals, particularly during and immediately after sacrifice.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports a case mortality rate of 10-40 percent, without vaccine currently available. In April, the National Institute of Health (NIH) issued an advice that urges preventive measures before Eidul Azha, when the movement of sacrifice animals increases.
