* Links found between Delhi and Karachi strains
KARACHI: Experts are worried that the people who survived Dengue last year in Karachi are at risk this year again but nothing is being done to monitor them. It is known that there are three stages to the Dengue virus with Dengue Shock Syndrome being the last one that can prove fatal.
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In addition to these worries, experts point out that as with most viruses, the Dengue virus is also capable of mutating or changing. Experts from the Aga Khan University Hospital and the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, UK got together to study the two strains of the dengue virus in the 2006 outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Karachi. Their findings have appeared online this month for the Journal of Clinical Virology. They warned that the types of dengue involved in the recent epidemic outbreaks in Pakistan are not well defined.
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