A fossil monkey skull recovered from the "Old Alluvium" of presumed Pleistocene age near Wad Medani in the Central Sudan is described. This find represents a variant of Colobus polykomos abyssinicus, a living species whose habitat is restricted to forest canopy. Since this skull is not abraded and is unlikely to have been water-transported more than a few kilometers to its site of burial, it pr...

A rare case of mucinous cystadenoma of the spleen is reported. It is the first case to be reported in Sudan and probably the third worldwide. The patient was a 33-year-old female with a multicystic spleen demonstrated by ultrasonography and CT-scan. Splenectomy was done. Histopathology and microscopy showed that the cystic space was lined by flattened & cuboidal epitheliod cells containing muco...

A strain of camelpox virus (CMLV) isolated in the Sudan was attenuated by serial passage in Vero cell monolayers for use as a future vaccine strain. The safety and potency of passage 115 virus (designated Sudan CMLV/115) was tested. Camels inoculated with CMLV/115 showed no clinical disease or skin lesions, developed low-level antibodies and cell-mediated immune response and resisted challenge ...

Blindness in Southern Sudan is thought to be highly prevalent due to the high prevalence of onchocerciasis and trachoma. In addition, socioeconomic development in the area has been low and growth slow. Communities in the South have not changed much having been unaffected by modern institutions more prevalent in the North. Traditional methods of farming, fishing and pastoralism still persist. Ho...

1 Research and Development Department, HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 HealthNet TPO South Sudan, Wau, South Sudan, 5 APRODEM-Girizina, Bujumbura, Bur...

Sorghum grows well in arid and semi-arid agroecological zones and is thus one of the most important cereals in the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).3 Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger lead sorghum production per capita in SSA. Per capita consumption is dominated by Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Chad. Ethiopia is also a major producer and consumer of sorghum.4 FAO data from ...

To the Editor: Ehrlichia ruminantium, the causative agent of heartwater, is transmitted by Amblyomma spp. ticks. Amblyomma variegatum ticks, which are found in the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, except in certain areas of southern Africa, are major vectors of E. ruminantium (1–3). A. lepidum is also an important vector of heartwater, especially in eastern Sudan (4). However, few epidemiologi...