Hemorrhagic fever confirmed in woman in Iraq's Tel Afar district

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Health authorities in Nineveh province said laboratory tests have confirmed hemorrhagic fever in a 32-year-old woman in the Ayyabiye subdistrict of Tel Afar, west of Mosul. The Nineveh Health Directorate said the patient had been listed as a suspected case several days earlier and blood samples were taken at Tel Afar Hospital. The samples tested positive at the Central Public Health Laboratory in Baghdad, and the woman was transferred to the isolation ward of Al-Shifa Hospital in Mosul, the directorate said. It added that the approved treatment protocol has been started for the patient. Earlier this month, the same directorate reported a confirmed case in a 39-year-old man in Mosul's Bab al-Jadid area, describing both infections as part of a series of cases recorded in the province in recent weeks. With the onset of summer, health and veterinary teams have increased oversight of animal movements and illegal slaughtering while continuing to monitor suspected cases at the district and subdistrict level to prevent new outbreaks.