Waves of Disease. Claudia Kalb.
by Kalb, Claudia; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 2Science. Publisher: Newsweek, 2005ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Cholera | Communicable diseases | Malaria | Pneumonia | Tsunami Disaster -- South Asia (2004) | Waterborne infectionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "TV cameras brought the pounding waves and broken souls into our living rooms, but none could capture the next awful threat for Asia: a massive onslaught of infectious disease. The fears of local health officials and villagers who rushed to bury the dead were unfounded; corpses do not spread illness. The real risk for the survivors of this disaster are age-old pathogens that sneak into the human gut, bloodstream and airways through contaminated water, mosquitoes and contact between living people." (NEWSWEEK) This article discusses diseases that may break out in the wake of the tsunami in Indonesia.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Waves of Disease, Jan. 10, 2005; pp. 44.
"TV cameras brought the pounding waves and broken souls into our living rooms, but none could capture the next awful threat for Asia: a massive onslaught of infectious disease. The fears of local health officials and villagers who rushed to bury the dead were unfounded; corpses do not spread illness. The real risk for the survivors of this disaster are age-old pathogens that sneak into the human gut, bloodstream and airways through contaminated water, mosquitoes and contact between living people." (NEWSWEEK) This article discusses diseases that may break out in the wake of the tsunami in Indonesia.
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