Karachi Mysterious Dengue Fever
Pakistan: Karachi reports Dengue-like mysterious fever
Karachi: A mysterious Dengue-like fever has been reported from Pakistani city of Karachi but when tested patients are emerging negative for the ailment, media reports said.
Patients, who are suffering from the disease are reporting similar symptoms like reduction in platelets and white blood cells.
“For a couple of weeks, we are seeing cases of a viral fever, in which platelets and white blood cells are dropping while other clinical symptoms are also similar to the dengue fever. But when NS1 antigen of these patients is performed, their tests come out to be negative,” Prof Saeed Khan, head of molecular pathology at the Dow University of Health Sciences, was quoted as saying by The News International.
Other experts, including physicians and hemato-pathologists from different hospitals of the city, have also confirmed that a dengue virus like pathogen is circulating in Karachi, causing a disease which is acting similar to dengue fever and requires the same treatment protocols but it is not dengue fever, reports the newspaper.
Blood banks and hospitals in the city are facing acute shortage of mega units and random units of platelets, reports said.
Clinicians have urged people to take precautions to prevent themselves from vector-borne diseases like dengue fever and malaria.
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