Acute haemorrhagic fever remained a public health threat in EMR

ABSTRACT

During this year [upto the end of November 2008], several countries [Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen] reported outbreaks or cases/death of acute haemorrhagic fevers resulting in large number of mortality and morbidity. While Afghanistan and Iran were the only EMR countries reporting Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever [CCHF] in 2008, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen ported Dengue Fever with the possibilities that the disease might have also manifested as Dengue haemorrhagic fever [DHF]. During the later part of November, an outbreak of acute haemorrhagic fever was also reported from Sudan