At least 89 people have been killed by mystery disease. The World Health Organisation has now deployed a taskforce to investigate.
The ministry of health in South Sudan has reported a fast-spreading illness in the northern town of Fangak, in the Jonglei state, which local scientists haven’t been able to identify.Health officials have been tasked with gathering samples to help identify the deadly disease,Local health officials in Fangak said initial samples from the sick returned negative results for cholera.
“That is when they will be able to collect samples from the sick people - but provisionally the figure that we got was that there were 89 deaths.”The minister of land, Lam Tungwar Kueigwong said that severe floods had increased the spread of diseases such as malaria and caused malnutrition in children due to food shortages across the northern states.
International charity Médecins Sans Frontières, which operates in the area said the suffering caused by the floods, including food shortages and illnesses, was putting pressure on the health facilities. “The number of children admitted to our hospital with severe malnutrition doubling since the start of the floods.”South Sudan has been staring at a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as extreme floods hit the country for the third consecutive year.
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