CCHF in Afghanistan

On 11 August 2008, a suspected case of haemorrhagic fever was admitted at the regional hospital of Herat province in Afghanistan. The case, a married woman of 33 years, was admitted with high fever, headache, vomiting and epistaxis. The patient was, later, laboratory confirmed as suffering from Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever [CCHF]. The family of the patient has cows, goats and sheep in their house, and the patient had a history of slaughtering sheep and coming in contact with blood and meat of the slaughtered sheep. The patient has recovered and no more cases were reported from the area