&#39;Very, Very Bad of Course. . . . Cholera Is Going to Be a Problem&#39;
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Wiping his brow after returning from a tour of ravaged Aceh province on Monday, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said he was worried that the devastation was even worse than has been reported.
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Poverty-stricken areas reeling from a series of tsunamis on Sunday now must cope with the sickness and death spawned by contaminated food and water.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia and killed more than 23,000 will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases
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An international scientific report warns of floods, famine and global water scarcity. Sound familiar? But the government has yet to edit before it's presented in April in Brussels. By the Associated Press.
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&#34;This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss.&#34;
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As aid agencies struggled to cope with the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, the UN today warned that the next few days would be critical in the fight to control potential outbreaks of disease.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in south and  southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed  and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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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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A woman dies of cholera in Baghdad, officials say, the such first fatality there in the nation's recent outbreak.
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss aid efforts for Asia's tsunami-hit countries were  warned the death toll could double to about 300,000 unless  action was taken this week to prevent disease.  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had  sent emergency treatment to the region for diarrheal diseases  such as cholera and dysentery but while the aid was reaching  many places, access to safe drinking water remained inadequate.
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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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Public health officials warn survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami face a grave danger, death and disease caused by filthy drinking water.
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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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BAGHDAD A virulent form of hepatitis that is especially lethal for pregnant women has broken out in two of Iraq&#39;s most troubled districts, Iraqi Health Ministry officials said in interviews here this week, and they warned that a collapse of water and
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Let's hope this is as bad as it gets.
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Iraqi health officials confirmed the first cases of cholera in Baghdad today, in a sign that an epidemic that has infected approximately 7,000 people in northern Iraq is spreading south.
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Millions of people could be at risk of waterborne disease in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean earthquake, the UN Children&#39;s Fund warned on Wednesday.