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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Asia faces an outbreak of unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza, which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year, more than any other cause, and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
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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 14,000 people were killed and hundreds  of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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With the death toll soaring to nearly 85,000 in the tsunami havoc, the World Health Organization Wednesday warned that disease in the aftermath of the disaster
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More people could be killed by disease after the Asian tsunami by the disaster itself, a health expert warns.
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Cancer deaths will more than double  to 17 million people each year in 2030 with poor countries  shouldering the heaviest burden from the disease, the head of  the United Nation&#39;s cancer agency said on Monday.
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World leaders met on Thursday to  discuss tsunami aid, the task's urgency underlined by a  chilling warning that the death toll could double to about  300,000 without swift action to prevent disease.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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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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There are chilling warnings in Asia that an inevitable global influenza pandemic could kill millions. This warning comes after the fight against SARS and bird flu left many countries weary.
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More aid from the international community poured into tsunami-devastated south Asian coastal nations on Wednesday as death toll from the catastrophe climbed toover 65,000 and concerns grew over epidemic outbreaks.
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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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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss tsunami aid, debt relief and an Indian Ocean warning  system were told the waves' death toll could double to about  300,000 unless action was taken this week to prevent disease.
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Officials in Indonesia say the number of people killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from around the area is set to rise still higher.
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Singapore and its Southeast Asian neighbors are in the midst of a new epidemic of dengue that is on course to claim more victims regionally than the last epidemic, in 2005.