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Fears of disease rise in tsunami-hit area
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Posted 22 July 2006 @ 13:16
Updated 22 July 2006 @ 13:27

PANGANDARAN, 22 July 2006 - Fears of disease grew in Indonesia's tsunami-hit areas on Saturday as thousands of people camped out in the heat with no clean water five days after the disaster that killed nearly 600 people. Several thousand people fled to camps in hills above the beach town of Pangandaran after Monday's tsunami, which displaced about 45 000 people along a 300km stretch of the south coast of Java, Indonesia's most populous island.

Some are still there because they have lost their homes, while many fear being caught in another tsunami if they go back. "The risk of catching diseases is there because they live in an open area with limited tents and water," Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said. "There are reports of respiratory infections but that's not serious considering they live in the heat and in an open area."


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