Talk:Sudanese tuberculosis outbreak (2023−present)

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Notability concern[edit]

This article as a whole seems to misrepresent the main source used.[1] The source does not support An ongoing outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease, was confirmed in Sudan in May 2023. The source does not support On 8 May 2023, the UN announced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis in Sudan and Ukraine The source does not support the bolded portion here: It confirmed at least 34,000 cases in Ukraine and a large but unspecified number in Sudan.

There was no "announcement". The source summarizes what "Dr. Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, said before a hearing Monday to prepare for a high-level meeting in late September during the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly." The source is about worldwide TB challenges. All it says about Sudan is:

In Sudan, 18,000 people received treatment for tuberculosis in 2021, according to the Stop TB Partnership, which is managed by the UN Office for Project Services and aims to achieve a world free of tuberculosis. But Ditiu said the situation there for TB sufferers, because of the ongoing fighting and collapse of most of the health system, is "probably like a ticking bomb."

"Probably like a ticking bomb" does not justify the content in the article.

None of the other sources in the article are about a "Sudanese tuberculosis outbreak". One is a review of TB in Sudan between 2004-2014. Six are about TB, unrelated to Sudan. Five are about the war in Sudan, unrelated to TB. The topic of the article as indicated by the article title, is only addressed by the lead sentence and the very last paragraph (which, again, is not supported by the source).

I was looking for sources to update the content, since it's "2023–present". I found concerns about cholera, dengue fever, and measles,[2] but couldn't find anything talking about a TB outbreak in Sudan.

I think this article is a case of an editor not carefully reading the source. I'll leave my concerns here for a week and tag the article for notability, then propose deletion if there are no objections. (There isn't anything solid to say from the source to even mention in the War in Sudan (2023–present) as an alternative to deletion.) Schazjmd (talk) 21:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]