Yellow Fever kills 164 in Sudan's Darfur; Agencies working to vaccinate people in region

"Yellow fever has killed 164 people over the last three months in Sudan's Darfur, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday," Reuters reports. According to a joint statement, "Between 2 September and 29 November, the total number of suspected yellow fever cases has reached 677, including 164 deaths," the news agency writes. Aid agencies provide almost all available health care in Darfur, "where rebels took up arms in 2003 complaining of neglect by the central government," according to Reuters. Sudan's health ministry and the WHO have vaccinated more than half of a targeted 3.6 million people in the region for the disease, the news agency notes (Dziadosz, 12/3).