Jungle-dwellers helped injured survive
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Michael Paul survived for two days in the jungle, despite being unable to walk. He lived on coconuts and sweet potatoes and drank coconut water.
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Doctors threw together a makeshift clinic Wednesday to tend to the injured after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Remnants of the storm drenched Central America in rain and the death toll rose to nine, with at least 11 people missing.
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Paramedics, it turns out, face a high risk of being injured on the job.
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John Souza, a volunteer with the Boone County chapter of the American Red Cross, is the second Columbia resident to join efforts to assist people who were affected by Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricane Charley.
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Food drops and other aid trickled toward this region from around the world on Friday, but slowly enough that the injured and the stranded in many places
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With no electricity or running water and short of basics like antibiotics, doctors in makeshift clinics are fighting to save survivors of Tropical Storm Jeanne â-ven
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- In the three weeks since catastrophe struck, this city has seen its share of body collectors, but none quite like Hector "Chino" Mendez and the Tlatelolco International Rescue Brigade.
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DAMAN, Mali  - Lying in the shade of an acacia tree, Malik Kulubali recalls a distant time when lions prowled the villages of southern Mali and the capital Bamako was little more than a village.
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Lying in a hospital bed in this rural hub of Kenya's Rift Valley, a man describes surviving two machete wounds to his head and multiple slashes to his hands. He says he was attacked by people who now live by the rules of tribalism.
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SOME of the last remaining Palaeolithic tribes appeared last night to have survived the Asian earthquake, easing fears that they had been washed away by the raging tsunamis.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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BRAS&#xED;LIA, Brazil -- Military helicopters lowered a rescue team by rope yesterday into the remote Amazon jungle site where an airliner slammed into the ground, but authorities held out little hope of finding survivors among the 155 people on board.
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The coastal trees and shrubs saved hundreds of lives in India by protecting villages from the waves.
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NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice...
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They are a billion strong. Diseased, malnourished, uneducated, they are a people on the run from wars that take the lives of their brothers and sisters.
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With no electricity or running water and short of basics such as antibiotics, doctors in makeshift clinics are fighting to save survivors of Tropical Storm Jeanne - even performing amputations - in a city so contaminated doctors
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First mammoth waves washed over their villages, leaving not a single hut standing. Then the survivors' ordeal began: days of thirst, hunger and miles of walking until &#151; just at the point of rescue &#151; a hungry pack of crocodiles tried to snap them up.