Sindh battles Congo virus: Health deptt seeks collaboration with Livestock deptt
-- IV Report KARACHI: Following recent deaths attributed to Congo Crimean haemorrhagic fever, a tick-borne viral disease, the Sindh health department is engaging with the livestock department to jointly combat the the disease outbreak, it emerged recently. A source in the department said that the Director General Health Services Sindh, has in a recent letter to his livestock department counterpart requested him to schedule a meeting with the Additional Director Surveillence of the health directorate to enhance coordination between the two departments on the subject of CCHF at the earliest. In the letter, DG Health says that the livestock department DG may be well aware that CCHF is an emerging public health problem for local and global community. “I bring this news to your attention that a case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is reported in District Malir, resulting from the human-animal interface,” the DG added and informed the livestock DG, “As of now, we have reporte...