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Up until now, the illness has killed 97 people in Fangak, Jonglei State, in the northern part of South Sudan. On Thursday, Fangak County Commissioner Biel Boutros Biel told ABC News an elderly woman was the latest fatality arising from the unidentified sickness.
In a press release, the South Sudan Ministry of Health revealed that the illness seems to mainly affect the elderly and children under 14.
The Ministry of Health also said that the symptoms of the mysterious illness include cough, diarrhea, fever, headaches, joint pain, loss of appetite, body weakness, and chest pain.
WHO officials visited the region to investigate the illness, but Biel Boutros Biel told ABC News they had left the area without revealing their findings to local officials.
The Fangak region has recently been heavily affected by extreme flooding, which has raised the burden of local health bodies placed by endemic diseases like Malaria and cholera, the South Sudan Ministry of Health said.
In November, humanitarian aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, had warned that flooding in South Sudan was a “perfect storm for disease outbreaks.”
Newsweek previously reported that over 200,000 people had fled their homes as a result of the worst flooding in the region for 60 years. MSF said people affected were at “higher risk of outbreaks and waterborne diseases such as acute watery diarrhea, cholera, and malaria.”
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection that can be caused by drinking infected water. Like the mystery illness affecting South Sudan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says cholera causes profuse watery diarrhea.
The CDC adds that people with severe cholera can develop severe dehydration, which can lead to kidney failure. If the disease is left untreated it can lead to death within hours.
ABC News reported that the WHO team, which had to travel to the area via helicopter due to the flooding, had tested samples from patients that returned negative for cholera.
MSF warned in its statement earlier this year that the global aid response to the flooding was inadequate. Speaking regarding conditions in a camp for those relocated by the flooding in Bentiu, just 75 miles from Fangak, MSF emergency operations manager Will Turner said: “The dangerously slow and inadequate humanitarian response to this crisis is putting lives at risk. The deplorable situation inside Bentiu displacement camp—formerly a UN Protection of Civilians site—is not a new phenomenon.
“For years, we have repeatedly warned about the dire conditions, yet other organizations and agencies responsible for the water and sanitation services in the camp have not sufficiently increased or adjusted their activities. This paralysis is resulting in horrific living conditions and huge health risks for the people living in Bentiu camp and across makeshift camps in Bentiu town.”
Newsweek has reached out to the World Health Organization for comment.
“Elderly woman dies of mysterious disease that killed almost 100 in South Sudan’s Fangak County”
Sudans post, *Fangak* doesn’t exist in South Sudan, ‘Panjak’ exists—–it is a Ngok Muonyjieng/Jiengs/Jongkoths/Dinkas village. nothing to do with our ke nyantoc, Balliet, Atar & Paweny, Malakal, this is their dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjObHAAaNE
Koryom grass hoppers/Locusts. Here in Upper Nile and Bor, Jonglei, Nuers are piece of trashes. Nuers are always used by by foreign countries as ‘to terrorize/ South Sudan and to make South Sudan as a ‘laughing stock of the world’.
a Nuer will never say anything to a Jaang/Dinka again, reason, pure HATRED and RACISM. Their gat Riek Machar, we killed him. Let the low lives bring their dirts into country and over our people ever again in name of the so-called *the UN and NGOs. Pieces of trashes. like in 2005, to come rebuilt South Sudan. Here in Jonglei, piece of trash Mr. Denay (deny) a Nuer piece of sewer was brought here by our enemies>>>>
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“Elderly woman dies of mysterious disease that killed almost 100 in South Sudan’s Fangak County”
Our grandmas dies younger than our countries of wars ‘attrition’, I don’t think there is any South Sudanese woman ever 100 years years old, there might. For all, the devil infested so-called queen of England or commonwealth of nations queen Elizabeth, is dead ages ago. And they want low lives, of Nuers ke nyantoc and some Equatorian pieces of trash to dance for so-called Queen. Who do the lives think they really are? We got rid of our Pharaohs eons ago. Uganda, our ally our best, ally. so-called *Lake Victoria* Uganda is part of the so-called commonwealth countries. There was a drunk English of trash, Mr. Winston Churchill, he was brought to our Niles and plains, by his handlers. And during the WWII, he proposed that their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs should be ‘resettled in Uganda——-their so-called pearl of Africa or Madagascar’ Their evil juus would have been wiped long time ago. They are going to be bombed to nothing anyway. The evils are not going to reach *Poland and New York* The Nile, Idda Amin Dadada, from Northern Kakwa and South Sudan, he went fight in Korean war (was by the UN) as a British mercenary with other Ugandans, Kenyans and other Africans, When Mr. Idda Amin Dada came back for from Korean war, he came kicked out the British and white evils their Indians or Asians slaves out of Uganda.
We know better than you lives think you know us. There is another Ugandan boy, Mr. Milton Obote, an Acholi boy from Northern Uganda and South Sudan, former president of Uganda. There was an annual meeting of commonwealth in Singapore. Mr. Milton Obote, told the British to remove their rubbish in South Africa. Mr. Milton Obote was government in Uganda was toppled by Mr. Idda Amin Dada. A British peace sewer was officiating the so-called commonwealth annual meet ‘told Mr. Milton Obote, that there some people here in Singapore talking down the British people, “but they don;t have countries to go to” During in break times, Mr. Milton Obote found out his government had been and he was the one evil English low piece of shit was talking about. Mr. Jules Nyerere of Tanzania, told Mr. Milton Obote not to worry. Fellows, Tanzania, is a not a commonwealth country, Burundi, Rwanda, Mozambique, Namibia Southern Cameroon, Togo, Angola. Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Maasis and us here in South Sudan are the same, but be very careful. During the so-called COLD WAR. There was a US president, Mr. Ronald Reagan, a so-called videos and propaganda producer, even went and African countries in the damned *UN and the UNSC* that ‘African countries are going to UN or UNSC building in New York with no shoes’.
It is always about Africans, these days it always about South Sudan. We are not like your Bantuses whom or Arabs, Mr. Ronald Reagan, shouldn’t president. He was an actor, in their Holly wood where the lives produced the propaganda. Someone wanted killed him while he was the so-called *white house*. He told his wife Nancy Reagan, that “honey,I failed to duck”. Don’t bully women, over 90 persons of women around the world are very honest, they think the boys have been playing games with ever since, and they are fighting back’ bully women/girls at your own risk. There are evils women, they are the devil infested island of England, evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, Woman of Mrs. Hillary Clinton was an evil woman.
Mr. Ronald Reagan respected his Nancy Reagan.>>>>