Vaginal bleeding as a sign of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever infection: a case report.

Background: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a severe vector-borne viral hemorrhagic fever with considerable mortality in humans. This disease is endemic in Afghanistan, and its incidence rate has rapidly increased in recent years. This infection can cause a broad range of hemorrhage manifestations including epistaxis, petechial or purpuric rashes, hematemesis, and melena; however, vaginal bleeding is also reported as a rare manifestation.

Generalized, non-neonatial tetanus is a highly fatal disease in Afghanistan: A case series study.

Objectives: To describe the clinical features and outcomes of a case series of adult tetanus and illustrate inadequacies in confronting this preventable disease.

Design And Methods: This study retrospectively evaluated 24 relatively severe, confirmed cases of tetanus, diagnosed between March 2017 and December 2018, in Kabul Antani Hospital, Afghanistan.

Results: Regarding the source of the infection: 18 patients (75%) had a history of injuries, 1 had a history of a dog bite and 1 was an intravenous drug user; 4 patients had no external injuries or wounds.

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Afghanistan: A retrospective single center study.

Background: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is a particular regional concern because of endemicity in Afghanistan and many neighboring countries. The prevalence of CCHF has been increasing in this region. These concerns are compounded because there is no vaccine or therapeutic for CCHF and Afghanistan lacks adequate public health infrastructure in preventing, detecting, and containing cases.

Investigation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic Fever in Patients Admitted in Antani Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2017-2018.

Background: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is the most medically significant hemorrhagic fever. Afghanistan as an endemic region of CCHF has shown a rapidly growing incidence of the CCHF recently, but there is no data on the characteristic of the disease in this country, here we study the epidemiological, clinical, and paraclinical features of this disease in patients with CCHF, based on the collected data from the patients document records from March 2017 to January 2018 in the referral infectious diseases hospital of Afghanistan (Kabul Antani Hospital).

Methods: A cross-sectional study in 120 patients admitted in Kabul ANTANI hospital was carried out from March 2017 to January 2018.