Hepatitis E in Maban refugee camps, South Sudan

Category Primary study
JournalWkly. Epidemiol. Monit.
Year 2012
The Ministry of Health, Republic of South Sudan announced an outbreak of Hepatitis E in four refugee camps of Maban county of Upper Nile state. A total of 384 suspected cases including 16 deaths [CFR:4.2%] were reported from these camps, initially, as cases of acute jaundice syndrome [AJS]. Later on, laboratory test result confirmed Hepatitis E virus [HEV] as the cause of this outbreak
Epistemonikos ID: d8d43fbcdf87da30bb12b749572e284144324b42
First added on: Nov 27, 2024