Reuters reports hemorrhagic fever has killed at least five people, including a doctor, and infected around 45 people in Karachi Pakistan:
The cause of the death of Yusra Afaq, a doctor in a government-run hospital, last week has been identified as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
The remaining four deaths, which occurred over the last six weeks, were also caused by hemorrhagic fever but the exact type was still not known, said Naushad Sheikh, permanent secretary at the health ministry of southern Sindh province.
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"The hospitals in Karachi have been put on high alert after 45 more cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported," he told Reuters.
Doctors say headaches and vomiting, followed by bleeding through the nose, mouth and ears are the symptoms of hemorrhagic fevers. The illness is often accompanied by hepatitis and pulmonary failure.
According to Reuters, the disease is spread by ticks from animals to humans, or from humans to humans and is endemic in parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, , Saudi Arabia, southern Europe and most of north Africa.
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