Disease fears rise in Indonesia's flood-hit capital
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Fears of disease gripped Indonesia's flood-hit capital on Friday with thousands of people living in cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a week after the city's worst floods in five years.
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Garbage trucks were out in force on Jakarta's streets on Monday for a huge clean-up of the city after a devastating flood, while nearly 200,000 people were suffering from flood-related illnesses.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Indonesia's capital was cleaning up on Saturday after several days of torrential rain engulfed parts of the city with up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) of water, killing three people and displacing around 7,000, a health official said.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have  killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless,  with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet)  deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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Flood waters receded in parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, but huge areas remained submerged heightening the risk of disease amid questions over why more had not been done to prevent the disaster.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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Horse-drawn carts rescued residents from flood-stricken districts in the Indonesian capital on Monday after flooding burst riverbanks, killing at least 25 people and forcing some 340,000 to flee from their homes in recent days.
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Rescuers and volunteers have struggled to help nearly 340,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods, triggered by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, which have killed 20 people.
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At least five people have been killed in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas with more than 100,000 left homeless after days of torrential rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.
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Disease could claim more lives as survivors struggle with the aftermath of a string of vicious storms that left at least 700 dead in the Philippines, health officials said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Dead bodies littered the  streets of Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday as fears rose  that more than 25,000 people may have been killed in the  weekend quake and tsunami.
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Storm waters that had receded washed back into many low-lying areas of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday following overnight rain, piling on the misery for some 340,000 people forced from their homes in the city where at least 29 have died after days of torrential rain.
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Slow drainage of the flooded Indonesian capital of Jakarta hit a setback Tuesday when heavy rain began and water levels in the city stopped receding.  Officials said at least 36 people are known dead, and thousands of others were camping out on the roofs of their homes.
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Hungry and filthy, thousands of Indonesians queued for water on Tuesday as aid deliveries to tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new snags and cases of disease and infection among survivors emerged.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- Strings of bright laundry hang among the gravestones and people who are brave enough sleep among the dead, taking refuge on the high ground of the Karet Cemetery from the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in decades.
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Floods blocked roads and railways in Jakarta and thousands of people abandoned their homes in low-lying areas as torrential downpours virtually paralysed the Indonesian capital Friday.