Hepatitis E -- Sudan
Cases of hepatitis E are spreading across camps in Gedaref and Kassala states, Eastern Sudan, infecting hundreds of refugees from Tigray [Ethiopia] and posing a risk to local Sudanese communities.
In the past few weeks, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Gedaref's Umm Rakouba camp and Al Hashaba/Village 8 transit centre have received 278 patients, of which 16 were hospitalized, including 3 pregnant women. Many patients have acute jaundice syndrome, a
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8557918&promed&0
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