AJ A total of 16 cases of the virus found in Balochistan province since the beginning of the year, of which 11 were detected this month.
Pakistan health authorities are alarmed after two people died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in the country’s Sindh and Balochistan provinces.
The first death from the disease, commonly known as Congo fever, was reported on Friday in Karachi, the country’s largest city and capital of the southern Sindh province.
According to the provincial health authorities, the 28-year-old man was a butcher by profession, who first complained of fever on April 30.
When his condition did not improve, he was taken to a city hospital two days later where his health continued to deteriorate. But his tests for dengue and malaria were negative.
On Thursday, he was moved to intensive care after testing positive for the CCHF virus. He died the next day.
On Sunday, a 20-year-old woman died of Congo fever in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan.