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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Pakistan : Dengue fever - 216 test positive in 10 days

An article via Dawn, excerpt :

" Since January this year 66 per cent of the suspected patients were tested positive for dengue fever, while five of them died.

KARACHI: Of the 287 patients admitted to different government and private hospitals in the city since Sept 21, 216 (75 per cent) have been confirmed to have contracted dengue fever while the blood test reports of many of them are still awaited. According to data released by the Sindh Dengue Surveillance Cell, 31 new dengue suspected patients were admitted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, the Dr Ziauddin Hospital, the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, the Karachi Adventists Hospital and the Kutiyana Memon Hospital with a history of high-grade fever and bleeding from nose and gums till Friday morning."

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