Death toll could double from epidemic of diseases
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The continent-sized wound created by the tsunami that devastated large swaths of coastal Southern Asia has opened the door to some of nature&#39;s deadly opportunists, with disease threatening to double the death toll, health experts warn.
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Typhoid, diarrhea and hepatitis  epidemics now pose the gravest threat to the tens of thousands  who survived a devastating tsunami that tore across the Indian  Ocean, international relief agencies said Monday.
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The UN warned on Tuesday that the world is facing a &quot;unique development challenge&quot; as new data showed nearly 40-million people now have HIV and over 3-million will die of Aids this year, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of the killer disease.
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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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GENEVA: The World Health Organisation says disease in the aftermath of southern Asias tsunami disaster could kill as many people as the deadly waves and earthquake have.
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Disease could double the death toll from the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean region at the weekend, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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The death toll in tsunami-hit Thailand could rise beyond 2,000 after some 1,000 bodies were spotted on a popular beach north of Phuket, Deputy Interior Minister Sutham Saengpratoom said on Tuesday.
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High levels of  may be killing off people living in cities around the world, experts suspect.
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New York (VNA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said an outbreak of disease could crop up in the wake of the Dec. 26 Tsunami, killing as many people as lost their lives in the initial disaster.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Storm-battered survivors trudged Thursday through mud contaminated by bodies and sewage and dangerous with debris that slashed bare feet, amid fears that an epidemic could ravage the city whose death toll officials say could reach 2,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations warned  on Wednesday Asia's tsunami death toll could double to about  300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic  services by the end of the week to prevent disease.
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Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami  could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are  fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned governments, especially those in Asia, that they may face more diseases originating in animals in the future, posing a threat to the health of human beings.
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The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 100 - almost half of the total worldwide fatalities.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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