PESHAWAR, July 15: A patient was suspected of suffering from Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic infection in Abbottabad, officials said.

According to officials of the provincial directorate-general of health, the executive district officer (EDO), health, Abbottabad had sent a letter on July 13 to the director-general health services, saying that a young girl Saleema, a resident of Balakot, Mansehra district, had come to the Abbottabad Teaching Hospital with symptoms like Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever infection.

The letter said that the girl had developed a fever which lasted a month, adding that she also suffered abdominal pain and defused body aches.

Then one day, the letter said, she started bleeding from eyes, nose and mouth. The patient, it said, had recovered after being hospitalised for three days.

The girl, the letter said, was unmarried and had no history of addiction and all six members in her family are healthy. It said she had not travelled before the past two months.