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A physician working for the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) has returned from Sudan's troubled Darfur region with harrowing tales of women and children battling an outbreak of hepatitis in makeshift refugee camps with little or no clean water, health care and nutritious food. So far, about 625 hepatitis-related cases have been documented in West Darfur alone, where 22 people have died. In one refugee camp, 149 cases have been registered, and eight people have died, six of them pregnant women.