Disease Warnings Follow Floods
From Times Wire Reports
Chinese officials sent out more volunteers to reinforce exhausted troops lining the Yangtze River as it threatened to burst its banks. Officials also warned of epidemics after floods that have killed more than 1,100 people. In northwestern Xinjiang province, officials air-dropped food to residents trapped by some of the worst floods in the desert region for 300 years. And in southwestern Guangxi, authorities warned of epidemics of cholera and dysentery and sent trucks to spray one city with disinfectant.
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