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Researchers have finally unraveled the cause of the mystery illness that struck Karachi back in 2021 finding that the Zika virus was behind the disease that had affected hundreds of people in the country's financial hub. United World Antiviral Research Network (UWARN) Principal Investigator Dr Najeeha Talat Iqbal said, that the investigators at Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi detected two cases of the Zika virus in 2021 during an outbreak of a mysterious viral illness which was later confirmed through metagenomics at the Gale Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. "During our study, we confirmed the presence of the Zika virus in Pakistan, which had not been previously detected," said Dr Talat while referring to a study involving patients with acute viral illnesses between the ages of 1 and 75 from AKU wards, outpatient clinics, and physician referrals. Meanwhile, 44 patients, from the Arbovirus cohort, were enrolled out of which six of whom were NS1 neg

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has recently unveiled the Team of the Tournament for the Men's T20 World Cup 2024 and it features six players from the Indian team. Rohit Sharma and Co managed to lift the T20 World Cup trophy after 17 years on Saturday after they beat South Africa by seven runs in the final in Barbados. Additionally, the team managed to land six of its players on this year's Team of the Tournament. These players include Sharma as the side's captain, Player of the Tournament Jasprit Bumrah, all-rounder Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Arshdeep Singh and Axar Patel. The team also features three Afghanistan players: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rashid Khan, and Fazalhaq Farooqi. West Indies' Nicholas Pooran and Australia's Marcus Stoinis complete the XI with South Africa's pacer Anrich Nortje as the 12th man. T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament Rohit Sharma (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Nicholas Pooran, Suryakumar Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Hard