Ahmedabad: Doctor dies of Congo fever - NewsX

A local hospital in Ahmedabad is on alert as a resident doctor died of the dreaded Congo fever in today. Dr Smiral Patel of V S Hospital, who contracted the virus while treating a patient with unknown haemorrhagic viral fever, today died at a private hospital. But today he passed away," said Dr Atul Patel, senior consultant at Sterling Hospital, where Dr Smiral was undergoing treatement. Authorities at the V S Hospital have started checking up everybody who was in the team with Dr Smiral, and given preventive medicines to his colleagues, who had taken him to the private hospital and stayed with him.

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