The Congo fever has killed three people in Kolat village in Gujarat near Sanand.
A woman died of the insect-transmitted illness two weeks ago in the Gujarat state village of Kolat and a doctor and nurse who treated her later also contracted the illness and died.
India's National Institute of Virology later confirmed that the three died of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, an Ebola-like disease where patients can bleed to death if not treated quickly. The illness mainly affects animals, but ticks that live on sheep and cattle can pass the virus to people, who can transmit it through their blood or saliva.
all the dental surgeons, nurses and the physicians out there , in fact all the health care professionals who come in contact with patients , please take cross infection control and barrier methods seriously.
Tuberculosis , Hepatitis B and HIV continue to threaten the health of all health care personnel in India as in all developing countries.
In such a climate carelessness in barrier methods would be suicidal.
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