Pakistan, June 20 -- Another death and another preventable tragedy. A young man in Karachi has become the latest victim of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)-a lethal, tick-borne virus that reemerges with deadly predictability each year.

He developed symptoms days after slaughtering livestock for Eid, was turned away from more than one healthcare facility, and died shortly after being put on a ventilator. His story is tragic, but it is not unique. It is emblematic of a state that continues to treat public health as an afterthought: reactive, fragmented, and always too late.

The Congo virus is not new. Nor is its seasonal pattern mysterious. Yet even now, decades after it was first detected in Pakistan, the basic systems needed to m...