Awareness, experience cut flood disease death tolls
By Peter Apps
LONDON (Reuters) - After earthquakes, tsunamis and floods such as those ravaging south Asia, aid agencies invariably warn of serious disease outbreaks - but in reality better prevention and education mean they rarely happen.
Historically, related outbreaks of disease such as cholera often killed more people than the disasters themselves - for example, in the floods that have repeatedly hit Bangladesh.
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