CAIRO (AP) - Doctors in Sudan say the number of malaria cases in North Darfur province has climbed to nearly 8,000 people in less than a month.
They are warning that the outbreak in the country’s far-flung west may persist if the Sudanese government and international organizations do not intervene “immediately.”
The Central Committee of Medical Laboratories, a union of the country’s pathologists, released the statement late Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization has previously said malaria cases were reported in several provinces of Sudan.
Sudan is also facing a Cholera outbreak, following flash floods that swept the country in late August, affecting water sanitation. Last week, the U.N. humanitarian agency reported 124 suspected cholera cases and seven deaths.
A rebellion in long-neglected Darfur was brutally suppressed in the 2000s.
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