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July 29, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Fear of Disease in South Asia, Flood Waters Recede"
Reuters (www.reuters.com) (07/29/02)
Flood waters are receding in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal causing
an increased risk of encephalitis, cholera, and other diseases.
Encephalitis has already taken the lives of 70 people in the
eastern Indian state of Assam over the past two weeks, according
to health services director D.K. Das, and a cholera outbreak is
suspected in Nepal, where five people have already succumbed to
the disease.
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