CENTRAL ASIA: IRIN-CA Weekly Round-up 6

KAZAKHSTAN: Congo fever strikes in south

A woman and two men were admitted to hospital on Tuesday, suspected of
carrying the highly contagious Crimean-Congo-Haemorrhagic-Fever [CCHF] in
Kazakhstan's southern Zhambyl Region, the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency
reported.

Already more than 10 people, two of them children, have been admitted to
hospital in the southern region since the beginning of the year, suspected
of carrying the disease. CCHF is similar to the deadly Ebola virus found
in Sub-Saharan Africa, which causes violent haemorrhaging.