Sudan: Call for Public Health Emergency Amid Dengue Outbreak in Sudan's Blue Nile State

[Dabanga] Ed Damazin / Amsterdam -- A civil society initiative in Sudan's Blue Nile state has called for a comprehensive public health emergency to be declared across the state, urging the authorities to close the state capital, Ed Damazin, for a full week to contain the epidemic and carry out sanitation measures. The group says around 4,000 dengue* fever cases have been recorded, with between two and four deaths reported each day.