South Sudan
Status in February 2013
Two cases reported were reported from two villages in Kapoeta East County, Eastern Equatoria State. Only one of the two cases was contained. One of the two cases was reported as imported from outside of the village where the case was detected. During the same period of 2012, 6 cases were reported from South Sudan.
23 rumours were reported and investigated.
Summary for 2012
During 2012, 521 cases were reported, compared with 1028 cases during the same period in 2011. This represents a reduction of 49%.
336 out of 521 cases were reported to have been contained. Cases were reported from 255 villages in 9 counties. Of the 255 villages which reported cases, 166 villages reported imported cases only.
- Eastern Equatoria state
- Kapoeta East (420 cases)
- Kapoeta North (28 cases)
- Kapoeta South (4 cases)
- Jonglei state
- Pibor (24 cases)
- Lakes state
- Awerial (7 cases)
- Warrab state
- Gogrial East (30 cases)
- Tonj North (6 cases)
- Tonj South (1 case)
- Western Bahr el Ghazal
- Jur River (1 case)
During 2012, 100% of endemic counties and 91% of non-endemic counties reported on the disease, even if zero cases were reported.
Most of the transmission occurs during the periodMarch–August.