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Article: Southern Sudan has unique combination of worst diseases in the world.
- Article from:
- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- February 24, 2004
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2004 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It sounds like a place stricken by a Biblical plague - disease after unimaginable disease, all come to rest in one pitiful region of a vast African country.
Worms oozing out of people's feet; two kinds of flies whose bites cause death in bizarre ways; a baffling syndrome that throws children into seizures and retards their development before it ultimately kills them.
While some of these devastating diseases can be found scattered around the world's poorest places, it is only in southern Sudan that they are all seen together in one country at the same time.
"This really is the forgotten front line when ...