Thursday, 7 November 2013

report of a blood sample confirmed Test confirms Congo virus death

LAHORE, The report of a blood sample confirmed on Thursday that Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (Congo fever) was the cause of the death of a man who had breathed his last at Shaikh Zayed Hospital some five days back.

Communicable Disease Control Director Dr Jafar Ilyas said Shafiq was referred to SZH from a health facility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was suspected to be a patient of Congo virus and his blood samples were sent to NIH.

Dr Jafar said the NIH reports confirmed that the patient

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