On 8 September, Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) notified WHO about a cholera outbreak in four localities in the Blue Nile State (BNS), south-eastern Sudan, bordering Ethiopia and South Sudan. The first case was detected on 28 of August 2019.
From 28 August through 8 October 2019, a total of 247 suspected cholera cases, including 8 deaths (case fatality ratio: 3.5 %), have been reported from four localities in Blue Nile State including Al Roseries (99), Ad Damazin (52), Wad Almahi (3) and Baw (2), and five localities in Sennar State including Abu Hugar (71), Singa (4), Alsoky (13), Aldaly wa Almzmom (2) and Sennar (1) . One hundred fifty cases were female (61%), and 238 (94.4%) were over 5 years of age.
Published on October 09, 2019
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