By Yien Gatour Mead<\/p>\n
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Two measles-related death cases have been reported in Abiemnom County, Ruweng Administrative Area in South Sudan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n According to Ruweng Administrative Area ministry of health, the two death cases occurred last week.<\/p>\n A spate of measles cases has been reported among returnees and refugees who fled Sudan conflict and live under dire humanitarian conditions in South Sudan.<\/p>\n Ruweng Administrative Area ministry of health, last week, declared measles outbreak at Abiemnom where 96 cases were identified in the first phase.<\/p>\n Office of health ministry and aid agencies have recorded up to 103 measles cases across Abiemnom county.<\/p>\n Abiemnom County has recorded cases of the disease, reportedly, due to influx of returnees from Sudan since April.<\/p>\n Director General of Ministry of Health, Elijah Wal Chol said the government and partners will conduct mass vaccination campaigns to control spread of the disease.<\/p>\n \u201cWe use a case definition; whoever fits into the definition is listed as a case. The numbers I am giving are line-listed; they are confirmed cases of laboratory tests. There are over 100 cases listed,\u201d Wal explained.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Abiemnom County health director, Mr. Simon Mayol said health workers are working with aid agencies to vaccinate children against the disease.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not doing vaccination among the returnees and residents. And this will affect us in controlling the outbreak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The county health director believes that when there is intervention, these cases will not go down because there is no vaccination for measles.<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, this is very bad when it comes to failure to control the outbreak. Yes, it is increasing on a daily basis, we communicate to Ruweng health ministry to support the affected children that were in a condition of measles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Yien Gatour Mead Two measles-related death cases have been reported in Abiemnom County, Ruweng Administrative Area in South Sudan According to Ruweng Administrative Area ministry of health, the two death cases occurred last week. A spate of measles cases has been reported among returnees and refugees who fled[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ruweng-administrative-area"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22512,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511\/revisions\/22512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}