Health dept scrambling to get to the root of CCHF virus

Rajasthan health department is scrambling to get to the origin of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), which claimed lives of two male nurses and infected two others.
However, no fresh case of the disease has been reported in the city.
The team of National Centre for Disease Control, which arrived from New Delhi, also visited the hospital, where the case was reported and its ICU and held a meeting with doctors and officials of the health department to get to the origin of the virus in Jodhpur.
"We have taken every possible step to see if there is any other instance of CCHF. After a detailed survey and screening on many levels we are relieved to have not found any further spread of the virus," said CMHO Yuddhveer Singh.

The steps also included screening of the passengers of the Thar Express plying between India and Pakistan amidst the rumours that the virus might have come through this way from Pakistan.
"Our teams were present at the railway station during the departure of the train from Jodhpur on Friday night and will also be present to check the passengers arriving on Sunday morning," Singh said.
According to the experts, the department should have taken an extra caution after the surfacing of 6 patients of CCHF in Pakistan last year itself and should have screened the passengers with this threat in mind.

"Even now it is not too late as the department has already been there to administer polio drop," said a doctor from S N Medical College.