A 45-year-old male patient, who presented to the outpatient department of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Islamabad with complaints of progressive lower back pain and stiffness in association with a limitation of mobility for the last 20 years. The back pain was insidious in onset and progressive in nature associated with early morning stiffness, and …
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever or CCHF is a viral disease transmitted by a tick from animals to humans. During the Crimean war, the disease was known as Crimean fever. In 1944 the Soviet scientists identified the disease and labeled it as Crimean hemorrhagic fever. In 1967, the virus was isolated and was named as Congo virus. …
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Dengue fever is a disease most prevalent in South Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean. It is caused by a virus called as the dengue virus which has five subtypes (serotypes) named as DEN-1 to DEN-5. Infection from one serotype confers lifelong immunity to that serotype. A person (previously infected with one serotype), …