KARACHI: A teenage boy from Jamshoro district became the third victim of the deadly Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Monday, officials at the health facility confirmed.

“Nineteen-year-old Rahim was admitted to the JPMC on Sunday. He had bleeding from nose and mouth,” JPMC executive director Dr Seemin Jamali said, adding he died late Sunday night.

He originally hailed from Sehwan Sharif and belonged to a peasant family, the officials said.

“He was diagnosed with the CCHF as the result of a test we have received,” said Dr Jamali.

The officials said that the young man was the third person who died because of the lethal condition in Sindh during the current year.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2019