Tsunami States Hasten to Provide Aid, Beat Disease
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Indian Ocean states from Indonesia to Sri Lanka scrambled on Tuesday to cope with the widespread devastation of a tsunami that killed over 23,000 people and could claim more lives through disease and privation.
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NOTTINGHAM, England -- The largest international disaster relief effort in history shifted into high gear yesterday as aid agencies across the globe began shipping water purification kits and other supplies to survivors along the tsunami-ravaged coastline of the Indian Ocean, hoping to stave off a second crisis brought on by waterborne diseases such as cholera and malaria.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Stricken countries on the  Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of  bodies as experts warned disease could kill as many people as  the 63,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's  tsunami.
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Medan (Indonesia), Dec. 31 : Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean today, but tonnes of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia on Saturday, as aid workers, troops  and grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of  rotting corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to deliver food and water to millions of  tsunami victims and the U.N. warned a death toll of 150,000  would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks  survivors.
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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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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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Countries hit by the Asian tsunami have moved quickly into the rebuilding phase, helped by an unprecedented outpouring of aid for humanitarian relief, a senior World Bank official said on Tuesday.
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Cargo planes touched down with promised aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week's quake-tsunami catastrophe. The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and hiking southern Asia's death toll to more than 67,000.
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Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean Friday, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.
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WASHINGTON -- Humanitarian groups and governments across the globe launched the largest relief effort in history Tuesday in a desperate race to save thousands of tsunami survivors facing a new threat from deadly diseases.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia Saturday, as aid workers, troops and  grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of rotting  corpses and help millions threatened by 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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world pumped aid into  the tsunami zone around south Asia on Friday in a frantic race  to save millions of survivors from dehydration and disease, and  stop a terrifying death count from climbing.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Up to 5 million people  around the Indian Ocean waited for food and clean water on  Thursday as nations hit by one of the biggest tsunamis on  record rush to bury their dead and avert the threat of disease.