COVID-19 Pandemic and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: A Dangerous Combination for Healthcare System | ||
| Microbes and Infectious Diseases | ||
| Article 4, Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 8-10 PDF (177.76 K) | ||
| Document Type: Letter to the Editor | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mid.2022.170559.1407 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Rooh Ullah* 1; Hamid Ali Khan2; Mati Ur Rehman3; Tarique Noorul Hasan4; Qurat Ul Ain5; Shabana Perween5; Narmeen Arshad5; Muhammad Yousaf5; Muhammad Ammad5 | ||
| 1Pure Health Laboratory, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Lincoln University College, Malaysia. | ||
| 2Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, KP, Pakistan. | ||
| 3Pure Health Laboratory, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Ascencia Business School, College de Paris, France. | ||
| 4Pure Health Laboratory, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. School of Life Science, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | ||
| 5Pure Health Laboratory, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| To the Editor We have recently studied published articles related to co-epidemics of COVID‐19 and other contagious diseases which highlight the effect of coinfections on health care system. Almost 6,286,897 precious lives have been lost so far due to this novel COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 while, it has infected above 520,482,362 individuals globally. In Pakistan, a highest surge has been observed in the number of COVID-19 infected people with 1,529,165 infected cases and 30,376 deaths [1]. Pakistan being a Muslim nation also face a serious threat of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) occurrence while celebrating its Islamic festival of Eid-Ul-Adha [2]. Since 1976, each year the virus appears at the time of Eid-Ul-Adha with most infected cases reported in Baluchistan however, cases have also been recorded from every region of the country (To be continued). | ||
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