chikungunya

Health department rejects news of an epidemic, says all is well

The district health officer says no new case has been reported for the last couple of weeks

Experts urge public not to panic as deaths, infections mount

A case of the virus was found in a resident of Pind Maneem in Khanpur

Single kit costs around Rs400 and requires only a drop of blood to test the patient for the disease

The bigger issue isn’t Chikungunya. It is vision and a will to rise to the challenge.

Chikungunya disease is caused by the bite of a specific mosquito

Also advise federal health ministry to include chickenpox vaccine in its national Expanded Programme on Immunisation

The doctors said they were waiting for reports of 45-year-old Safeer Khan

Patients are relatives who believe they may have been infected at a hospital in Karachi