Disease Next as Tsunami Toll Rises, Experts Say
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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With health officials warning that the death toll of more than 140,000 from last month's tsunami could jump sharply without a continual supply of aid, world leaders struggled Thursday to figure out the best way to help victims &#151; and to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's tsunami death toll  shot up on Monday as officials said the more they cleared up,  the more bodies they found.
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NEW DELHI/JAKARTA/NEW YORK - The death toll in the tsunamis that ripped across Southeast and South Asia climbed above 24,000 on Tuesday as emergency and government officials said two days after the disaster that they feared the number of victims would
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Asia&#39;s tsunami death toll has soared above 125,000 as millions struggle to find food and clean water and persistent rumours of new giant waves send many fleeing inland in panic.
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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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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and  even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave  of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by  Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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Disease could double the death toll from the tsunami in Asia, according to the World Health Organisation, but the enemy is not the putrefying bodies that are still unburied but the collapse of the clean water supply.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations put  the latest death toll in Asia's tsunami at around 150,000 and  warned it could still soar as relief workers were confronted by  huge devastated areas without roads, bridges and airstrips.
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GENEVA - Communicable diseases that develop in the aftermath of southern Asia&#39;s deadly tsunami could claim as many lives as the initial earthquake and massive waves, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
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BANGKOK - With the staggering numbers of dead and injured from the tsunami that struck South and Southeast Asia last weekend continuing to rise, the tragedy is quickly turning into one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.
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NEW DELHI: Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and waterlogged fields on Tuesday, as Government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s southern coastal areas, would rise further.
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Banda Aceh - The confirmed deaths in a mammoth Asian quake and tsunami soared to 60 000 on Wednesday as worst-hit Indonesia readied bulldozers to dig mass graves for corpses in a rush to ward off disease, which the United Nations health agency said could
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Health experts say no serious disease outbreaks have been seen after the tsunami, but warn it is too soon to say they will not occur.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.
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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.