'Pre-caustionary Measures Only Solution To Avoid Congo Fever'

Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute Prof Ghiasun Nabi Tayyab has said Congo fever can be avoided only by adopting pre-cautionary measures

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Aug, 2017 ) : Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute Prof Ghiasun Nabi Tayyab has said Congo fever can be avoided only by adopting pre-cautionary measures.

"No vaccine has been made so far in this regard and we all should be very careful while purchase sacrificial animals on Eid ul Azha ensuring that animals do not have ticks in their hides," he added.

He expressed these views while speaking at a symposium held here for creating awareness on Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever. Prof Imran Hassan Khan, Prof Khalid Waheed, Dr Sadaf Munir and Dr Syed Razi Haider Zaidi also addressed and highlighted the complications of Congo virus and suggested different steps to prevent from this epidemic disease.

They also threw light on in time treatment of Congo and measures to prevent to spread it. Medical experts, medical students, media persons, nursing students and general public attended this seminar and expressed their deep interest in the proceedings of the seminar on Congo.

Prof. Ghias un Nabi Tayyab said that Congo fever is an epidemic and it is more lethal than cancer which grows in the skin of goats and other animals and we should be careful at Eid ul Azha on touching such animals having ticks in their skin and adopt maximum preventive measures.

He said that Congo virus is inhabitant of African countries which is created from ticks living in the skins of goats, cows, buffalos and camels. Principal PGMI pointed out the symptoms of the Congo patients and told that they suffer from nuisance, fever, hunger, weakness and swelling of eyes and their white cells decrease quickly and start bleeding which ends on death of the patient.

He said that Congo is fast spreading disease all over the world so we should be very careful about it.