It killed my brother.
The WHO has only reported 231 cases of meningococcal meningitis (the bacterial kind-- worse than the viral type) and 16 deaths from it...
IT IS VERY STRANGE that I cannot get any info on symptoms, demographics of victims, or anything else through several sources from the "unknown" disease (except that it is similar to yellow fever: early phase is fever, muscle pain (with prominent backache), headache, shivers, loss of appetite, nausea and/or vomiting with late phase of hemmoragic fever)... These are my top 4 contenders (knowing nothing about the specifics)
1. Influenza (not bird flu, just influenza A or B carried by european doctors in the area)
Sorry to hear about your brother, processing
2. Dysentery
3. Acute Hepatitis
4. Another viral hemorraghic fever: marburg, ebola, etc.
The only one of these that has a glimmer of hope for resolution in an area like darfur is dysentery. Unless someone committs 100,000 IV bags and extensive containment, the other 3 are useless to even try to treat... imho