High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war
Surveys conducted in southern Sudan, after conflict there ended in 2004, found much higher levels of blindness than anticipated. The results, published in PLoS Medicine, have major implications for the provision of health services in the region. . .. An international team of researchers conducted a survey in May 2005 in Mankien—a district of Sudan...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
. The survey project was conducted by J. Michael Fay, a conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS...