Friday, September 30, 2011

Pakistan: More Articles Re: Dengue Fever Deaths

2 Articles

High mortality of dengue fever in Pakistan
24/9/2011
Eight people died in the Pakistani city of Lahore after viral infection of dengue fever, bringing the death toll to 83 people, according to a media report. According to the website of the channel, "Geo News" News of Pakistan that there are 9781 confirmed cases of the virus in the Punjab province alone.

Experts said that in the medical field hospitals - it seems - is able to absorb this huge number of patients, which required the government to take extraordinary measures "before it is too late."

The World Health Organization said in its latest statistics there are 2726 confirmed cases of dengue fever virus in Pakistan.

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2nd Article:

29/9/2011
Pakistan is currently facing a new threat is in an unprecedented wave of dengue fever has killed 126 people were killed in less than a month because of this disease, with 12 thousand others carrying the virus that causes it.

Experiencing overcrowded hospitals of Lahore, a major center of wide panic among the population, as it were wounded when one of them I think it is a fever dengue fever, which causes confusion in the case of large hospitals, forcing departments to set up tents outside the building to receive the injured.

Earlier, experts in the medical field hospitals in the city of Lahore, is able to absorb this huge number of patients, which required the government to take extraordinary measures "before it is too late." In addition to the territory of Punjab, the other parts of the country has recorded many cases of dengue fever, killing at least six were killed by the illness suffered by 130 others in the territory of Khaibar Bactunjua (north west). In Sindh province (south), the disease killed six people, while the 400 recorded injury.

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