Summary
AFTER the deluge comes the threat of disease. With the death toll from the tsunami still rising, those who survived the initial onslaught now find themselves at immediate risk from the after- effects of the flooding.
The World Health Organisation estimates that around five million people, many of them children, could have been displaced and made homeless, leaving them particularly vulnerable. It warns that at least as many people who died in the tsunami itself - and more children - could fall victim to disease.See the full content of this document
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Disease From Flood Waters Could Be the Biggest Killer
Diarrhoea, diphtheria, typhoid, cholera:
the list of conditions reads like a catalogue of primitive killers that the WHO long ago eradicated. In reality these diseases are very much alive, and flourish in precisely the conditions now setting in across the devastated Indian Ocean...See the full content of this document
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