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Shafaq News
14-05-2025
- Health
- Shafaq News
CCHF toll climbs in Iraq with new case
Shafaq News/ Health authorities in Iraq have confirmed new infections of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), including the country's first fatality from the disease this year in Dhi Qar province. A medical source in Dhi Qar told Shafaq News that the death involved a woman in her sixties from Al-Rifai district, north of the provincial capital. 'She had been experiencing symptoms consistent with hemorrhagic fever and was receiving treatment, but her condition failed to improve,' the source said. In Nineveh, health authorities confirmed a new infection in a 27-year-old man from the Qayyarah subdistrict, south of Mosul. According to a source in the Nineveh Health Directorate, the Central Public Health Laboratory in Baghdad confirmed the diagnosis on Wednesday. The patient was transferred to Al-Shifa Specialized Hospital to undergo the Ministry of Health's treatment protocols and remains under strict medical observation, the source added. The new case raises Nineveh's total to four confirmed infections since April 30, when the province reported its first case of the year. According to the same official, three previous patients have fully recovered and were discharged after completing medical evaluations. CCHF since the beginning of 2025, including 9 fatalities.
Shafaq News
30-04-2025
- Health
- Shafaq News
CCHF: New case registered in Iraq's Nineveh
Shafaq News/ Iraq's city of Mosul has reported the first case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), a medical source from the Nineveh Health Directorate revealed on Wednesday. The infected 48-year-old woman from the Nahrawan neighborhood is currently receiving treatment at Al-Shifa Hospital, with health authorities following established protocols to manage the case, the source affirmed. According to Shafaq News tracker, CCHF has led to 28 confirmed cases across the country, with four deaths in Kirkuk, two in Muthanna, and one in Diyala. The authorities in different provinces took strict measures to fight the endemic.
