Islamabad, Sept. 27 -- Pakistan's southern Sindh province has reported another death from Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), raising the provincial toll to six this year, health authorities said Friday.
The latest victim, a 28-year-old man from provincial capital Karachi's Landhi area, was admitted to Jinnah Hospital on Sept. 24 with high fever, bleeding and low blood pressure, according to a notification from the Sindh health department.
He was placed in isolation but died the same day. Laboratory tests later confirmed CCHF through polymerase chain reaction (PCR), while tests for malaria and dengue were negative, it added.
Of the six fatalities in Sindh so far this year, five were reported in Karachi and one in Thatta district, of...