11 Reported Dead After Grasshopper Swarm
Eleven people died and thousands were taken to hospitals with breathing difficulties after a swarm of grasshoppers invaded central Sudan, the state-owned newspaper Al Anbaa reported.
Health authorities in Wad Medani, 110 miles southeast of the capital, Khartoum, said an epidemic of lung eczema has afflicted 1,685 people since Oct. 22 and killed 11 people.
“The epidemic is linked to the unprecedented increase in the grasshopper insects,” the paper quoted the health authorities as saying.
Wad Medani resident Joseph Mogum said the grasshoppers gave off a strong smell that caused breathing problems.
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