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Yellow Fever in Darfur, Sudan
14 November 2012. El Geneina: Staff members of the Teaching Hospital in El Geneina, West Darfur, receive the first vaccination treatment on Yellow Fever.
Yesterday, the hospital received a small number of vaccines that have already been used to inoculate hospital staff. The facility is expecting to receive thousands more vaccines that will be used to assist
the local population.
West Darfur is currently one of the states with the highest rates of yellow fever cases. The hospital has already treated 106 cases of Yellow Fever since the disease began to spread one month ago. Among these cases, 38 people have died, most of them farmers from El Geneina, Mornei, Habila, Kreink, Beida and Forobaranga.
The Ministry of Health in West Darfur is working closely with the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), UN agencies and international and national nongovernmental organizations to fumigate, distribute vaccines and implement awareness campaigns. The epidemic has no precedent in the region.
Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.
Yellow Fever in Darfur, Sudan
14 November 2012. El Geneina: Staff members of the Teaching Hospital in El Geneina, West Darfur, receive the first vaccination treatment on Yellow Fever.
Yesterday, the hospital received a small number of vaccines that have already been used to inoculate hospital staff. The facility is expecting to receive thousands more vaccines that will be used to assist
the local population.
West Darfur is currently one of the states with the highest rates of yellow fever cases. The hospital has already treated 106 cases of Yellow Fever since the disease began to spread one month ago. Among these cases, 38 people have died, most of them farmers from El Geneina, Mornei, Habila, Kreink, Beida and Forobaranga.
The Ministry of Health in West Darfur is working closely with the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), UN agencies and international and national nongovernmental organizations to fumigate, distribute vaccines and implement awareness campaigns. The epidemic has no precedent in the region.
Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.