According to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, a total of suspected dengue fever cases, including deaths, were recorded in the country between 29 August, when the outbreak started, and 4 December. According to the Health Ministry, 53 percent of all reported cases are male. The age group between years has the highest number of cases 45 percent. In the five Darfur states, suspected cases, including deaths, were recorded in 27 localities between 29 August and 4 December.
In eastern Sudan's Kassala town, five suspected cases, including one death, were reported between 23 and 26 November. WHO and the Ministry are also preparing to deploy a mini-lab from the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal, together with a team of laboratory experts to support field diagnosis and strengthen the capacity of the central public health laboratory in Khartoum.
It also received mosquito nets, to protect from the combined effect of malaria, from the West Darfur Health Ministry for distribution in four clinics in Kereinik locality. In East Darfur, the UN Children's Agency Unicef released three primary health care kits, covering for the needs of 30, people for three months.
WHO continues to support the Ministry in integrated vector control activities covering all the affected localities in Darfur, Kordofan, and Kassala. Their recommendations include engaging more families and communities in prevention activities such as the elimination of adult mosquitoes by indoor spraying, searching and destroying larva-breeding sites in and around homes to prevent mosquitoes laying eggs, sleeping under mosquito nets, wearing protective clothing and using mosquito repellents.
WHO also recommends strengthening surveillance systems by adding more sentinel sites in Kereinik locality, the most affected area, and deploying a team to operate the clinic there. Toggle navigation. Independent news from the heart of Darfur and Sudan. Aedes aegypti, the principal mosquito vector of Dengue viruses vectorbase.
