CAIRO (AP) - A yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Darfur region
has killed 107 people in the last six weeks, the World Health
Organization reported Tuesday, warning that the disease could
spread all over the country. The number of deaths from the
outbreak is steadily rising, and Sudan is working on an
emergency vaccination drive. Officials reported last week that
67 people had died in the outbreak. There is no medicinal cure
for yellow fever, which is spread by mosquitoes. Doctors treat
the main symptoms - dehydration, fever, bleeding and vomiting -
and wait for the viral infection to pass. The WHO estimates that
more than 500 million people in 32 countries in Africa are at
risk of yellow fever infection. As part of the emergency
response program, 2.4 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine
are scheduled to arrive in the Sudanese capital next week, Dr.
Anshu Banerjee of the WHO office in Sudan told the Associated
Press by phone on Tuesday. More than 350 suspected cases of
yellow fever have been reported in Da