SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Two persons, including a doctor, have died of Congo fever and five other health workers contracted the disease in northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday.
The health condition of the infected health workers is satisfactory.
Qari Zabihullah Hussaini, the Public Health Department director, told Pajhwok Afghan News a Congo fever patient, a butcher, visited the provincial hospital and the virus was transmitted to a doctor and four other staff of the hospital.
The doctor and the butcher from Khumab district died of Congo fever, a viral disease that is transmitted by ticks, Hussaini said.
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