Fear of disease leads to panic in storm-ravaged Haiti
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Survivors of the storm that ravaged Haiti face a new menace as contaminated water, putrefying bodies and devastated sanitary systems threaten an outbreak of waterborne diseases such as malaria and tetanus, aid workers warned yesterday.
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Flooding unleashed in Haiti by tropical storm Jeanne is feared to have killed more than 2,000 people.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : About 30 people have lost their lives in Haiti as tropical storm Jeanne swept across the island of Hispaniola that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, authorities said on Sunday.
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Haiti says it may evacuate parts of the city of Gonaives, amid fears of disease after storm Jeanne.
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Some public health experts watching the aftermath of the tsunami disaster fear the outpouring of emergency relief supplies and the rush to head off outbreaks of disease will prove misguided or wasteful in some respects.
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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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Flood victims in Haiti are buried in a mass grave, amid more warnings of the threat of disease.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Bodies stacked up in hospitals and on beaches Monday, raising fears of disease in an arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 22,500 people.
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Fears of an explosion of waterborne diseases have surged in flood-stricken northern Kenya, where a child died of diarrheoa that has hospitalized scores in the region.
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Getting aid to those who need it remain a big problem in storm-ravaged Haiti, where up to 1,500 were killed in flooding and 300,000 people were left homeless.
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More than a week after devastating floods hit northern Haiti the death count rose sharply as reports came in from remote areas on Monday and aid workers struggled to feed thousands of desperate people.
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Tropical Storm Jeanneâs death toll in Haiti rose to more than 1,500 and UN peacekeepers were sending reinforcements to help keep order among desperate survivors who have been looting aid trucks and mobbing food distribution centres.
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WASHINGTON -- States that routinely deal with hurricanes and other natural disasters are better prepared than others to handle bioterrorism, but overall the nation is struggling to develop plans for public health emergencies, according to a study released
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Bloated corpses and weeping relatives filled morgues in Haiti after Tropical Storm Jeanne left more than 600 people dead, another tragedy on this Caribbean island in a year marked by revolts, military interventions and deadly floods. The death toll was expected to rise...
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Haiti&#39;s prime minister has warned of the threat of a serious outbreak of disease after devastating flooding caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - More than a week after floods  devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were  struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of  residents, some still perched on roofs.
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Insecurity continues to hamper relief efforts in northern Haiti, as rescue workers struggle to distribute relief supplies to thousands of flood victims in the city of Gonaives.