KARACHI, Aug 9: A livestock dealer of Sohrab Goth died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in a private hospital on Thursday night.

According to a doctor from the intensive care unit of Patel Hospital, the 49-year-old patient had been to Balochistan in recent days in connection with his business. He was brought to the hospital on Aug 7 with high fever and bleeding and was declared Congo positive by a private laboratory on Thursday. The body was handed over to the attendants.

A source at the Dengue Surveillance Cell of the Sindh health department, which also records Congo fever cases, said six confirmed CCHF patients had been reported by four private health concerns in the city this year. Three of them had come from Balochistan.

It was the second death caused by the CCHF in Karachi this year.