Geo436.com blog: Disease risk eases in parts of flooded Pakistan

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Geo436 ISLAMABAD: The risk of outbreaks of disease has eased in parts of flood-hit Pakistan as water recedes from many areas, the United Nations Children”s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, but the hard-hit south remains a worry. The floods that began six weeks ago have inflicted havoc from the northwest to the far south of the country, destroying villages, bridges, roads, damaging millions of acres of cropland and displacing millions of people. The government and aid agencies have warned of the spread of epidemics, particularly of water-borne diseases such as cholera, in the flood-stricken areas