karachi
September 22, 2017
Congo fever toll mounts to six as another death reported
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever has claimed another life in Karachi this month, bringing the total deaths due to the tick-borne viral disease to six in the country this year. Fifty-two-year-old Syed Ghafoor Shah, a resident of Mujahid Colony in Orangi Town, was brought to the Liaquat National Hospital on the night of September 10 in an unstable condition, the health facility’s spokesman, Anjum Rizvi, told The News on Thursday. Rizvi said Shah was tested positive for Congo fever the...