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A boy suffering from diarrhoea lies in a
bed at a hospital in the Bangladeshi
capital Dhaka August 7, 2004. Bangladesh
has suspended work on development
projects to focus on repairing damage
from floods that have swept across
almost two-thirds of the country and
killed more than 670 people, a senior
official said on Friday.The U.N. World
Food Programme has assessed the damage
bill to farms, factories and
infrastructure in from the floods, at $7
billion with more than 10 million
Bangladeshis homeless. REUTERS/Jayanta
Shaw
REF: BDboydiarrhoea
Maria Hu (R) watches her mother Rosario (
C) fold the hands of her dead two-year-
old son Antonio, who died on December 6,
1997 of whooping cough in the remote
nothern village of Ilom. The World
Health Organization reported December 11
that 17 Guatemalans living in the
village of Ilom, who have not received
vaccines, died of whooping cough. Many
of the villagers who were hiding deep in
the jungles during the civil war which
ended last year are beginning to return
to their homes. REUTERS/
Stringer
REF: GTwhoopingdeceased
An Afghan girl, Parwine (R) carries her
two-year old sister Bahmano, who is
suffering from whooping cough, at a
hospital in Kabul January 6, 2003.
Thousands of Afghans children die every
year of preventable diseases like
whooping cough and measles. REUTERS/
Zainal Abd Halim
REF: AFwhoopingcough
An Acehnese boy receives vitamin A
before a measles vaccination performed
by medical staff from the Japanese Self
Defense Force in Panga, on Aceh's
tsunami-devestated west coast February
12, 2005. The World Health Organization (
WHO) has said there is a risk of
outbreaks of deadly diseases such as
cholera in Aceh, where the tsunami
destroyed hospitals and homes, forcing
tens of thousands of people to live in
temporary camps. REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
REF: IDmeaslesvaccine
A Chinese doctor examines an x-ray of a
tuberculosis patient at the Beijing
Tuberculosis Hospital March 18, 1999.
Tuberculosis remains the most deadly
infectious disease in China accounting
for more than 250,000 deaths each year.
China, which has more than six million
tuberculosis patients who are mainly
from rural areas, has been working
closely with the World Bank and World
Health Organisation to control the
disease. March 24 marks the World
Tuberculosis Day. REUTERS/Andrew
Wong
REF: CNxrays
A Chinese doctor examines an x-ray of a
tuberculosis patient at the Beijing
Tuberculosis Hospital March 18, 1999.
Tuberculosis remains the most deadly
infectious disease in China accounting
for more than 250,000 deaths each year.
China, which has more than six million
tuberculosis patients who are mainly
from rural areas, has been working
closely with the World Bank and World
Health Organisation to control the
disease. March 24 marks the World
Tuberculosis Day. REUTERS/Andrew
Wong
REF: CNxrays
Iraqi boys refresh themselves in a
polluted canal of the Shatt al Arab
river in Basra May 7, 2003. Local
hospitals reported at least 17 cases of
cholera but the World Health
Organisation warns than hundreds more
are possible in the southern city of
Basra which faces problems with water
supply and sewage disposal after the
infrastructure was damaged or looted
during the chaotic fall of the regime of
Saddam Hussein. REUTERS/Damir
Sagolj
REF: IQpollutedwater
Maria Hu (R) watches her mother Rosario (
C) fold the hands of her dead two-year-
old son Antonio, who died on December 6,
1997 of whooping cough in the remote
nothern village of Ilom. The World
Health Organization reported December 11
that 17 Guatemalans living in the
village of Ilom, who have not received
vaccines, died of whooping cough. Many
of the villagers who were hiding deep in
the jungles during the civil war which
ended last year are beginning to return
to their homes. REUTERS/
Stringer
REF: GTwhoopingdeceased
Shontish Hansda, a 35-year-old villager
suffering from tuberculosis, lies
outside his hut in the village of
Mirjapur, some 120 kilometres (75 miles)
west of Calcutta June 30, 2004. Hansda
is one of the 250 million people in
India who live in desperate poverty with
an income of less than a dollar a day
and no access to a wholesome meal, basic
health or drinking water. REUTERS/
Desmond Boylan
REF: INtuberculosis
An Iraqi baby waits to be innoculated in
a health centre in the capital of
Baghdad June 22, 2003 as the ministry of
health and UNICEF launched National
Immunization Day. Iraq's 4.2 million
children under the age of five have
started to be innoculated against
preventable diseases such as polio,
tetanus, diptheria, pertussis, measles
and tuberculosis. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
REF: IQvaccination
A doctor travelling by boat checks flood
victims in the Bangladesh capital of
Dhaka September 6, 1998. The floods have
killed more than 600 people, including
over 100 who died of diarrhoea. Doctors
said diseases such as fever, hepatitis,
jaundice and malaria are also rampant in
the flooded areas. REUTERS/Rafiqur
Rahman
REF: BDboatdoctor
A Bangladeshi flood victim feeds saline
water to her dehydrated baby at a
hospital in the Bangladeshi capital
Dhaka August 11, 2004. Thousands of
people in Bangladesh are suffering from
diarrhoea, pneumonia and skin infections,
the fallout of the worst flooding in
the past 15 years. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw
REF: BDfloodvictim
A Bangladeshi flood victim feeds saline
water to her dehydrated baby at a
hospital in the Bangladeshi capital
Dhaka August 11, 2004. Thousands of
people in Bangladesh are suffering from
diarrhoea, pneumonia and skin infections,
the fallout of the worst flooding in
the past 15 years. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw
REF: BDfloodvictim
Togo Red Cross volunteer Sandra Sewavi (
R) informs a resident of the upcoming
vaccination campaign during which time
Insceticide Treated Nets (ITNs) will
also be distributed, in Katanga, a
suburb of Lome December 12, 2004. The
International Federation of the Red
Cross ( IFRC) begins a major measles,
malaria and polio campaign in Togo on
Monday. REUTERS/IFRC/Marko Kokic
REF: TGredcrossbednet
