Disease Spreads as Bangladesh Floods Ease

World | August 2, 2004, Monday // 00:00
Disease Spreads as Bangladesh Floods Ease Flood affected Bangladeshi women and children gather at the closed gates of a relief centre as they await food supplies in Dhaka. Photo by AFP

Emergency medical teams in India and Bangladesh are battling to save thousands of people taken ill after drinking polluted water and rotten food as South Asia's worst floods in 15 years eased after killing more than 1,350. Nearly 5,000 medical teams have fanned out across Bangladesh, many in boats, to try to contain diseases as flood waters continued to recede after submerging two-thirds of the impoverished country for the past month. Authorities had intensified distribution of dry and cooked food and safe drinking water.

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