RASC: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in a report that since the beginning of this year, 47 people have died in Afghanistan due to the Congo hemorrhagic fever.
This organization published a report on Thursday, July 13, saying that in less than two months, 54 new positive cases of Congo fever have been registered in the country.
According to the World Health Organization, 9 people died during this period.
According to the information of this report, from the beginning of 2023 until now, 494 positive cases of Congo fever have been registered in 32 provinces of Afghanistan.
In the report of the World Health Organization, it is stated that in the current year, 16 people died in Kabul, 19 people in Balkh, six people in Takhar, five people in Parwan, three people in Jawzjan, two people in Kandahar and one person each in Badakhshan, Baghlan, Faryab , Ghazni, Kapisa, Khost, Kunduz, Paktia, Sarpol and Maidan Wardak provinces, have died due to this disease.
Most of the victims of Congo fever in the country are people over the age of five, 28.5 percents of whom are women.
The World Health Organization has also announced the fight against Congo dengue fever and has said that it has cooperated with the Ministry of Public Health of the Taliban group in the diagnosis, treatment and consultation of this virus since one year.
Congo hemorrhagic fever is an acute febrile and hemorrhagic disease that is transmitted through tick bites or contact with the blood or secretions or carcasses of infected animals or humans. This disease first spread in 1944 in the city of Crimea, Ukraine, and then in the Congo.
