The Sudan Ministry of Health has declared a yellow fever outbreak in Sakure, Nzara County, Gbudue state (formerly Western Equatoria state) on the 29th of November. The 1st suspected case was reported on Nov 23rd, after the State Ministry of Health (SMoH) received a report of a suspected case of Ebola at the point of entry in Sakure (a border town between the DRC and South Sudan). With the help of the World Health Organisation (WHO) a rapid response team, comprising of SMoH director-general, a medical officer, laboratory staff, a nurse and other partners from the Ebola Taskforce were deployed. However, testing at the National Public Health Laboratory proved the sample collected was negative for Ebola Zaire, instead a YF-specific PCR assay confirmed that the sample was PCR-positive for yellow fever virus. Automatically triggering the activation of the YF incident management system.
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