By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on a report last week, a SAMAA report states a third Naegleria fowleri death has been recorded in Karachi. A 40-year-old man from Karachi died on Monday...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Indus Hospital reports receiving a patient from Kashmore district yesterday who has rabies. The patient is a 50-year-old woman who was bitten by a dog on the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The first two Naegleria fowleri cases/deaths were recently reported in Karachi, Pakistan. This has become something we see more frequently from the city each summer. In...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Pakistan has been a hotspot for infections with the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri in recent years and now officials are reporting two more...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials at the Indus Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan announced another human rabies fatality today in a 60-year-old man who was bitten by a stray dog and didn’t...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews For the second time in a week, a human rabies death has been reported at the Indus Hospital in Karachi. Last week, a 6-year-old boy died from the lethal virus and...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Pakistani media report an additional human rabies death in Karachi Friday night. According to the report, the victim is a six-year-old boy who reported at the Indus...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A human rabies death has been reported in Karachi, according to a Dunya News report. The victim was a 6-year-old boy, resident of Moro area in Sindh province. The...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A patient in Karachi has been diagnosed with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), according to a report in The Nation. “A patient infected with CCHF has been admitted at...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A 34-year-old Khairpur man is the first reported case of rabies in Sindh, according to a SAMAA report. The man was reportedly  bitten on the foot by a stray dog three months...