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VIDEO: Myanmar faces famine and disease
11 May 2008 07:40:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
May 10 - Conditions in Myanmar are predicted to get worse as those most in need wait for aid.

Victims of a powerful cyclone in Myanmar seek medical attention in the country's worst-hit areas of the Irrawaddy Delta, but doctors are saying the next big threat is that of disease. Two trucks of UN aid have been allowed through a week after the cyclone struck.

Penny Tweedie reports.

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A Red Cross worker delivers rice to a shelter for displaced people affected by Cyclone Nargis on the edge of Yangon May 12, 2008. Between 1.2 and 1.9 million people have ...



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