South Kordofan, Sudan: Hepatitis E outbreak kills 16 people in refugee camps

Posted on September 16, 2012 • Filed under: Africa, Travel News

(Reuters) – An outbreak of the Hepatitis E virus has killed 16 people in three South Sudanese refugee camps near the volatile border with Sudan, authorities and the United Nations said on Thursday. South Sudan’s border region has been flooded with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Read article

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