At this point, about the only thing that we know about this deadly disease is that it is "unidentified".  I scoured all of the global news reports that I could find, and none of them are telling us specifically how these people are dying.  I am going to keep trying to find out more.  This outbreak may turn out to be nothing, but the past couple of years have shown us that sometimes a small outbreak can sweep across the entire planet very rapidly.  So we should keep a close eye on South Sudan until officials can tell us for certain that there is no cause for concern.

In their article about this outbreak, the Daily Mail stated that this illness "had killed scores of people in the northern town of Fangak"…

A World Health Organization (WHO) taskforce has been sent to South Sudan to investigate an unidentified illness which has killed 89 people.

The country's ministry of health reported that an unknown disease had killed scores of people in the northern town of Fangak in Jonglei state.

The WHO is telling us that at least 89 people have died, but the true number could potentially far higher.

Getting accurate information out of this part of South Sudan is difficult because of the horrific flooding that has occurred.  WHO officials had to take a helicopter just to reach Fangak.  This is the third year in a row in which flooding has absolutely devastated South Sudan, and this has put authorities on alert for outbreaks of "waterborne diseases and malaria"…

South Sudan has been staring at a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as extreme floods hit the country for the third consecutive year.