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Worst Virus Fears Realized in Poor, War-Torn Countries

Associated Press

   CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - For months, experts have warned of a
   potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some
   of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in
   poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps
   through the population.

   Now some of those fears are being realized.

   In southern Yemen, health workers are leaving their posts en masse
   because of a lack of protective equipment, and some hospitals are
   turning away patients struggling to breathe. In Sudan's war-ravaged
   Darfur region, where there is little testing capacity, a mysterious
   illness resembling COVID-19 is spreading through camps for the
   internally displaced.

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