Disease Outbreak Strikes Thousands in Flood-Hit East India
The increase of waterborne diseases after heavy rains caused by flooding and unsanitary conditions in eastern India has killed up to 250 people and left thousands seriously ill.
by Elias K.S., Christian Today India Correspondent
Posted: Thursday, September 6, 2007, 9:14 (BST)
BHUBANESWAR, India – The increase of waterborne diseases after heavy rains caused by flooding and unsanitary conditions in eastern India has killed up to 250 people and left thousands seriously ill.
"The death toll in the three cholera-hit districts of the state [of Orissa] – Rayagada, Koraput and Kalahandi – has gone up to 140," said Dr Usha Patnaik, the state’s director of health services, according to the Associated Press.
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