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VIDEO: Myanmar faces health catastrophe
11 May 2008 23:55:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
May 11 - Oxfam and World Vision have warned that more than 1.5 million people in Myanmar are at risk of death if aid efforts cannot reach cyclone victims.

While the ruling junta is obstructing efforts by international aid workers to enter the cyclone-ravaged country, injuries are going untreated and signs of disease are appearing among survivors.

Penny Tweedie reports.




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Survivors take shelter while waiting for first aid treatment is seen at one of Cyclone Nargis' worst-hit areas in the town of Labutta, 120 km (75 miles) southwest of Myanmar's biggest ...



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