"Millions" at risk of waterborne disease in South Asia: UNICEF
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Millions of people will be at risk of disease unless there is immediate action to provide clean water in communities hit by tidal waves in South Asia, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned.
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The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that disease in the aftermath of southern Asia's tsunami disaster could kill as many people as the deadly waves and earthquake have.
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The next few days will be critical in controlling any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases in areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunamis, the UN health agency said Thursday.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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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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Access to clean drinking water is now the biggest single factor in determining whether Sunday&#39;s tsunami will claim yet more victims, health officials said Wednesday.
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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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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia  can cope after nearly 13,000 people were killed and tens of  thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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Respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out in areas affected by the tsunami disaster that hit southern Asia, a United Nations official warned Wednesday.
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A mass inoculation drive for 115,000 children in tsunami relief camps in southern India is underway to avoid an outbreak of measles, the United Nation's Children Fund said.
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GENEVA - Communicable diseases that develop in the aftermath of southern Asia&#39;s deadly tsunami could claim as many lives as the initial earthquake and massive waves, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding, and the best medicine is large quantities of clean water
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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More than one billion people drink  unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the  world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N.  agencies said on Thursday.
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Disease could double the death toll from the tsunami in Asia, according to the World Health Organisation, but the enemy is not the putrefying bodies that are still unburied but the collapse of the clean water supply.
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Disease could kill as many people in the stricken Indian Ocean region as died in the weekend tsunami, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.