The College of Medicine at the University of Basrah organized a scientific symposium on Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: A Renewed Danger in Iraq.
The symposium included two lectures. The first lecture was given by Assistant Professor Dr. Firas Taha Mansour, which was entitled: Hemorrhagic fever viruses, their types, their spread around the world and ways of transmission to humans. As for the second lecture, it was delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Alaa Khattar Musa, and it was under the title: Hemorrhagic Fever: Symptoms and Treatments.
The symposium aims to introduce hemorrhagic fever and clarify the main points about the spread of the disease and ways to prevent it.
The symposium was attended by a large number of professors and postgraduate students at the college and the rest of the university's colleges and from some service departments in Basra governorate.
