Baghdad: These days a new type of disease is spreading rapidly in the Middle-East Asian country of Iraq. In this, the patient has a high fever and blood comes out of his nose. Patients suffering from this disease are dying due to excessive bleeding through the nose. According to the World Health Organization, 19 deaths have occurred in Iraq so far due to this disease.
According to the World Health Organization, it is a virus-borne disease, for which no vaccine is available yet. According to the report of news agency AFP, a health worker became a victim of this virus infection while spraying insecticide on the cow. Health workers wearing PPE kits are working in rural areas of Iraq after the outbreak of this disease. This hemorrhagic fever has been named Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), which is spreading rapidly from animals to humans.
According to the World Health Organization, this disease is spreading in animals through insect bites. Humans are falling prey to this infectious disease by coming in contact with infected animals. So far 111 cases of CCHF infection in humans have been reported in Iraq. Doctors say that the infection of this virus can spread rapidly because the patient has bleeding both inside and outside the body. The most serious is bleeding from the nose. Bleeding from the nose is the cause of death in 2 out of five cases of CCHF.
Most cases are being reported in southern Iraq
Haider Hantouche, a health official in Dhi Kar province, told that the number of cases of this CCHF is unprecedented. More than half of the cases of this infectious disease have been reported in southern Iraq, a poor agricultural region. According to the health official, in the past years, cases of this disease could be counted on the fingers, but now this disease is spreading very fast. According to doctors, this infection is spreading from wild and domestic animals like buffalo, cows, goats, and sheep in Dhi Kar province.
