2023-11-14 20:01:00
Afghanistan
L‘World Health Organization signals the continuation of the transmission of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (FHCC) one Afghanistan. Between the start of 2023 and October 23, 2023, 1,190 suspected cases, including 110 deaths, were recorded in 15 provinces. More than half of the deaths were reported in the provinces of Kaboul and of Balkh. In total, out of 1,052 suspected cases tested in the laboratory, 370 cases were confirmed positive.
Pakistan
An outbreak of CCHF is ongoing in the Pakistani province of Baloutchistan (see the news of October 10, 2023). Information is very limited.
In mid-October, 41 cases of CCHF, including 15 fatalities, were treated at Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. This epidemic is now causing infections among healthcare professionals. The outbreak among health workers is believed to have followed the hospitalization on October 22 of a patient at Sandeman Provincial Hospital in Quetta, who tested positive for FHCC three days later. As of November 9, 17 positive cases have been identified among healthcare professionals, and 3 deaths have occurred. The patients were transferred to Karachi.
Comments
CCHF is endemic in Balochistan and confirmed cases have been sporadically reported in around 20 districts since 2000. Recorded clinical data show that cases are mainly reported from rural and border areas with Afghanistan, where animal husbandry is a major concern. common source of home economics.
In April 2023, a major outbreak of CCHF in hospitals had been reported in a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. One week after one CCHF case was hospitalized, 48 additional cases were suspected in the same hospital, and 14 of these cases were confirmed by laboratory testing to be CCHF cases. The confirmed cases included 13 hospital staff and one hospitalized patient.
Sources : WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy – University of Minnesota, FluTrackers
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