Environmentalism will doubtlessly compund this tragedy.

[Zhukov]

Paris - Cholera, malaria and typhoid are the worst diseases stalking the survivors of Asias tsunami calamity and the weapons against them are clean water and sanitation, relief agencies say.

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Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease in tropical countries that claims around a million lives a year. The disease cycle depends on mosquitoes living and breeding in proximity to humans. The insect lays its eggs in water and feeds on humans for a blood meal, transferring a parasite that proliferates in the liver and attacks red-blood cells, causing fever and anaemia. Another mosquito-transmitted danger is dengue fever.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Tsunami_Disaster/0,,2-10-1777_1641194,00.html

The UN and the WHO are of course concerned.

Disease could kill as many people in the stricken Indian Ocean region as have been killed in the weekend's earthquake-sparked tsunami, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/764B801A-A5A8-4605-BBC9-86D50CDF88CB.htm

Well, what's the best known means of countering this mosquito-borne disease?

Why DDT of course.

Unfortunately, the UN and the WHO do not approve of the use of DDT.

And therefore thousands more will surely die.


http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124324&page=6