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Sudan: Some 77 lives claimed by Diarrhoea Outbreak
 (SomaliNet) A total of 77 lives have been claimed by the out break of acutely watery diarrhoea with over 2000 cases reported in northern Sudan, Angolapress reported Tuesday. According to the ministry's update on the epidemic covering 21 April to 18 June 2006, about 35 percent of the total number of cases occurred in the Khartoum state, while 26 percent were reported in Northern Kordofan. The rest of the cases occurred in White Nile, South Darfur, South Kordofan, Kassala, Red Sea, Al Gezira and River Nile.
| But Sudan's an Islamic state. That's the important thing. If you've got religion a couple thousand cases of the terminal trotz is no big thing. |
Sudan's National Public Health Laboratory confirmed the isolation of vibrio cholerae in 70 out of 139 stool samples collected so far from these states. Cholera is caused by Vibrio cholerae bacterium, an acute diarrhoeal illness that results from the infection of the intestines. In south Sudan, the epidemic has recently been reported in seven of the 10 states in the war-ravaged area and new locations continue to appear almost daily.
Posted by: Fred 2006-06-28 |
