A tuberculosis patient stands in an isolation area surrounded by barbed
wire at the Fatima Jinnah chest hospital in Baluchistan's capital of
Quetta October 5, 2001. At the hospital patients are also treated for
the Crimea-Congo Haemorragic fever, a disease carried by livestock
ticks, and humans are vulnerable when they live in proximity to herds
of sheep or goats. The virus is spread through urine, stools, blood or
saliva and the symptoms are nose-bleeds, bleeding from the rectum, even
bleeding through the skin. Since June, 64 cases have been reported and
seven people have died. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

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