KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Yellow fever has killed 164 people over the last three months in Sudan's Darfur, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, an arid region the size of Spain where fighting and banditry makes access particularly difficult. Healthcare is provided almost entirely by aid agencies in parts of Darfur, where rebels took up arms in 2003 complaining of neglect by the central government hundreds of miles away in Khartoum. The latest outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever has been concentrated in central Darfur, the WHO and Sudan's health ministry said in a joint statement. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..
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