Sharp jump in hepatitis E cases in Darfur: WHO
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A deadly outbreak of hepatitis E in Sudan's Darfur region has spread rapidly, with the number of cases almost tripling in less than a month, the World Health Organization said.
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Global health officials say war-torn Sudan is one of three sub-Saharan African countries reporting new cases of polio. The new polio virus is believed to the same strain registered in a major outbreak in northern Nigeria.
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REPORT FINDINGS: The number of people affected by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region has grown to 2 million, and there are strong indications of war crimes "on a large and systematic scale."
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Murder, rape and abductions are on the rise in West Darfur state, the United Nations said on Wednesday, noting with concern that increased violence in the lawless Sudanese region had driven more people into camps.
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NEW YORK  - Findings from a study conducted  in Japan suggest that consumption of uncooked deer meat is an  important risk factor for infection with hepatitis E virus  (HEV).
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DAKAR, Senegal, Sep 13, 2004 (PANA) -- New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has in a letter to the UN Security Council urged an immediate increase in international presence in Darfur and an extension of arms embargo to stop continuing atrocities in the
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REPORT FINDINGS: The number of people affected by the conflict in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has grown to 2 million, and there are strong indications of war crimes &quot;on a large and systematic scale.
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GENEVA - At least 70,000 people have died since March as a result of poor conditions in refugee camps in Sudan&#39;s Darfur, the United Nations health agency said Friday.
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An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan has spread, killing 84 people out of 228 known cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
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The number of people with the severe liver disease hepatitis C in England has soared, figures show.
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Canadian health officials say a restaurant worker in Kelowna, British Columbia, may have exposed as many as 2,400 people worldwide to the hepatitis A virus.
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The number of people affected by conflict in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur rose to 1.8 million in August, of whom 1.45 million were internally displaced persons (IDPs), the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids
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Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever, the World Health Organization annual report says.
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In the Darfur region of western Sudan, nearly 10,000 people per month have lost their lives from malnutrition and disease adding up to 70,000 deaths since the crisis started in February of 2003.
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The first scientific survey to assess the deadly nature of the conflict in the Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has found that death rates there were three to 10 times higher than normally found
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them  children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of  violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid  effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.