US EditionOver 40 Dead in Sudan Cholera Outbreak, Says MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières reports over 2,300 patients treated and 40 deaths in Darfur amid civil war and displacement worsening Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in years.
- At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, according to Doctors Without Borders .
- MSF said 2,470 cholera-related deaths had been reported in the year to 11 August out of 99,700 suspected cases.
- The medical charity said the outbreak was worsened by mass displacements of civilians due to the war, lack of access to clean water, heavy rains, and the exodus of people seeking refuge.
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A cholera outbreak is flaring up again in Sudan's Darfur region. At least forty people have died from the disease in a week, and more than 2,300 have been confirmed, according to Doctors Without Borders. According to the aid organization, this is the worst cholera outbreak in Sudan in years. Millions of people in Sudan have been displaced for a long time by the civil war. Fighting has been going on for two years between the government army and t…
The spread of the disease, which killed 40 people last week in Darfur, is encouraged by the ongoing conflict in the country. With the displacement of the population, the epidemic is spreading in the refugee camps in Chad, South Sudan and Ethiopia.
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In Sudan, dozens of people have died of cholera in a week. In the midst of the civil war that is undermining the health system, the country is facing the worst epidemic of this diarrhoeal disease that it has experienced in years.
Last week, over 2300 patients were treated in the Darfur region, reports Doctors Without Borders.
At least 40 people have died in the Darfur region in the worst cholera outbreak to hit Sudan in years in a week, the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders said.
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