Trauma risk for tsunami survivors
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As many as 90% of those affected by the tsunami are likely to be suffering from trauma, experts say.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Four weeks after killer  waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone  tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare  moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.
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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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BAMBOOFLAT, India  - Thousands of tsunami victims on India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago are still living in temporary shelters almost three years after the devastating December 2004 tsunami washed away their homes.
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INDONESIA JAKARTA -- Despite fears that a great number of people would quickly die from disease in the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami, there have been no epidemics so far, health officials said yesterday. Aid workers are rushing water purification tablets to survivors and building toilets in an effort to head off deadly outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and other ...
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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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Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible. They were the type of images you were hard-pressed to see during hours of television coverage.
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SINGAPORE : The tsunamis that destroyed homes and beaches around Asia also wrecked countless holidays and disrupted travel plans. And for those caught in the thick of the action, it would be one trip they are not likely to forget.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Fresh earthquakes in Asia  Monday rattled traumatized survivors of last month's killer  tsunami, while Indonesia and rebels in Aceh agreed to hold  talks, seeking to turn the calamity into a chance for peace.
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While some 150,000 people were killed by last month's tsunami, few animals seem to have been caught off guard. Do animals have a sixth sense about such danger?
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PADANG, Indonesia - The ground shook so hard that Yulinar had to grab a table to steady herself. Minutes later, she heard a warning crackling over the speakers of the neighborhood mosque - a tsunami could crash into her fishing village on Indonesia's Sumatra island at any minute.
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LONDON, Friday  - Survivors of the Asian tsunami,  in which nearly 300,000 people were killed or are still  missing, could be at risk of a deadly fungal infection,  Australian researchers said Friday.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors  are at risk from killer diseases, such as cholera, despite  stepped up international aid, the World Health Organization  (WHO) said Saturday.
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Survivors of the deadliest tsunami on record face serious water-borne diseases such as cholera, and will urgently need medicine and access to healthcare in the months ahead, doctors and health experts said on Friday.
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Millions of people may have survived  the deadliest tsunami in living memory, but many are so deeply  traumatized it will take years for them to heal, if ever,  medical experts said Monday.
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Cases of diarrheal illness are being reported across tsunami-ravaged areas of South Asia, and World Health Organization authorities estimated yesterday that as many as 5 million survivors of the calamity are at dire risk of disease because they lack basic necessities for survival: water, sanitation, shelter, and food.
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Denver: The high death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about deadly waves, scientists say.