Sudan: Prevention Key to Averting Cholera Outbreak in Flood-Hit Areas

Kassala — Sudan has been experiencing its worst floods ever, raising health concerns among officials, including Yakub Vaid, head of the World Health Organization's sub-office for eastern Sudan.

"Whenever there is a flood, there are three things we think about: environmental sanitation, water and outbreaks of communicable diseases," he said. These, he said, include increased cases of malaria, dengue fever and acute watery diarrhoea.

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