Taste for the dead in desperate Marshall Islands neighbourhood
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When residents in a district of the Marshall Islands capital quench their thirst, the water is more than likely to be contaminated by human waste and the decomposed bodies of relatives.
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JANDI MERIAH, Indonesia -- Dowes Ginting, the most wanted man on Sumatra island, lay dying. He had abandoned the hospital where he had seen his relatives succumb one after another, and he had fled deep into the mountains, trying to outrun the black magic he feared had marked him next. For... When...
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- In the three weeks since catastrophe struck, this city has seen its share of body collectors, but none quite like Hector "Chino" Mendez and the Tlatelolco International Rescue Brigade.
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Sri Lanka, December 30: Already haunted by fears of a new tsunami or spread of disease, survivors picking through debris of entire towns to recover corpses at Sri Lanka&#39;s northern tip face a new danger -- floating landmines.
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After years of helping readers lose  themselves in remote and far-flung parts of the world, travel  publisher Lonely Planet is now trying to find them amid the  tens of thousands dead or missing in tsunami-hit countries.
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State and federal health authorities were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie.
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Investigators are trying to determine the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal infections on an island in Ohio. More than 1,000 visitors to South Bass Island in Lake Erie
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka (CP) - There is nothing to indicate that the dusty expanse of soil behind this fishing community's main mosque is a mass grave.
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Public health officials warn survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami face a grave danger, death and disease caused by filthy drinking water.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to more than 52,000.
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Fifty years after a string of  U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, the western Pacific  republic's people are still suffering lingering health  problems, President Kessai Note said on Wednesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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Dead bodies do not spread disease but  mass burials after disasters, such as this week's killer floods  in Haiti, cause unnecessary suffering to surviving relatives,  the United Nations' health agency said Friday. Citing mass  graves being dug in the Caribbean island, where over 1,000  people were killed by tropical storm Jeanne, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said it was a wasteful misconception that  cadavers caused epidemics.
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Fighting to survive without water or food since the tsunami, villagers on a remote southern archipelago forbidden to outsiders are starving and desperate for humanitarian
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and sick survivors  of the Indian Ocean tsunami are waiting for aid in growing  desperation as a multinational aid operation tries to reach  remote towns devastated by the waves.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.