More than 1,500 dead in Khao Lak, govt warns of cholera
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By May Ying Welsh, Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Thailand correspondent. KHAO LAK : The Thai resort area of Khao Lak is said to be the hardest hit by Sunday&#39;s devastating Tsunami.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - A cholera outbreak has killed at least 119 people in eastern India since August, health officials said on Monday, but an aid agency said the death toll was more than double that figure.
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Sweden said Thursday more than 1,000  Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the worst  death toll for any foreign country.
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The tsunami which ripped apart tourist-packed Khao Lak beach in southern Thailand may have killed 3,000 people there, district police chief Col Aroon Klaewvatee said on Wednesday.
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Up to 1.8 million people are at risk from cholera, measles, malaria and other killer diseases following major floods across the Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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GALLE, Sri Lanka - Up to 1,000 passengers are dead or missing from a train that was flung off its tracks by this week&#39;s massive tsunami, police said, as workers on Tuesday cremated or buried bodies from the twisted wreckage.
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Up to 1,000 passengers are dead or missing from a train that was flung off its tracks by this week&#39;s massive tsunami, police said, as workers on Tuesday cremated or buried bodies from the twisted wreckage.
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Sweden said on Thursday more than 1,000 Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the worst death toll for any foreign country.
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The number of suspected cholera cases in northern Iraq continues to rise, with 16,000 people now showing symptoms, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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ADDIS ABABA -- More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said yesterday. Some 60,000 people have been infected, but the country's Health Ministry is resisting pressure to declare an emergency despite a United Nations warning that the disease is an epidemic. "The fact that it is spreading ...
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More than 1,500 people have cholera in Iraq and the outbreak has spread from the north to Baghdad, where conditions are ripe for the disease to thrive, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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A rare outbreak of cholera in Singapore has killed an 89-year-old man, among nine people infected, and authorities are trying to trace the source of the disease, the government said Monday.
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The first cases of cholera appeared in Baghdad on Thursday, in a sign the epidemic that has already sickened thousands in northern Iraq is now spreading.
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An outbreak of cholera has killed 48 people in Mozambique, the health ministry said on Wednesday, compounding humanitarian problems after floods hit the southern African country.
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss aid efforts for Asia's tsunami-hit countries were  warned the death toll could double to about 300,000 unless  action was taken this week to prevent disease.  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had  sent emergency treatment to the region for diarrheal diseases  such as cholera and dysentery but while the aid was reaching  many places, access to safe drinking water remained inadequate.
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STOCKHOLM, Dec 30  The final tally of Swedes killed by the Asian tsunami could be more than 1,000, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said today.