The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed it sent a rapid response team to South Sudan after around 100 people died from a yet-to-be-identified disease. Sheila Baya, a spokesperson for the WHO, told the BBC on Tuesday that the disease has caused at least 89 deaths in South Sudan’s Jonglei State. “We decided to send a rapid response team to go and do risk assessment and investigation; that is when they will be able to collect samples from the sick people … but provisionally the figure that we got was that there were 89 deaths,” Baya said. However, WHO’s response has been complicated by recent severe weather and flooding in Fangak, the epicenter of the mysterious new disease, Baya noted. A local South Sudanese health official told Baya that initial samples collected in the region returned negative tests for cholera, a bacterial disease that is often associated with flooding. WHO has not issued …