{"id":178757,"date":"2017-02-26T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/odour-from-wells-sparks-cholera-scare-in-sudan-s-northern-state\/"},"modified":"2017-02-26T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T14:57:00","slug":"odour-from-wells-sparks-cholera-scare-in-sudan-s-northern-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/odour-from-wells-sparks-cholera-scare-in-sudan-s-northern-state","title":{"rendered":"Odour from wells sparks cholera scare in Sudan\u2019s Northern State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Residents in Sudan&rsquo;s Northern State have complained of an unpleasant odour in drinking water, and have voiced their fear for infection with cholera or watery diarrhoea that has been spreading in Sudan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, on Thursday the Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organisation denied that the groundwater that feeds the well is polluted. 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