This is the VOA Special English Health Report.United Nations aid agencies say hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes because of violence in the Middle East and Africa, now are living in poor conditions in refugee camps.The agencies say serious problems with food and water are causing life-threatening diseases to spread in the camps.Health Officials say cholera, malaria, jaundice and malnutrition are threatening the lives -- a refugees who had hoped to be safe when they fled to the camps.There are thousands of people at one camp in South Sudan. They fled the military conflict in the area.Camp officials say there has been a big increase in hepatitis E: a viral disease spread through bad food and water.U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says most of those infected are young people.Hepatitis E hits young people between the ages of fifteen and forty hardest.
