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Parts of Asia on Verge of Dire Post floods Consequences Hard hit Areas to Face Mounting Pandemic Outbreak Tolls 1st Asian Post DESPO s P
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Parts of Asia on Verge of Dire Post-floods
Consequences?Hard-hit Areas to Face
Mounting Pandemic Outbreak Tolls?1st
Asian Post-DESPO?s P.I. Prof. Dr.
Aurangzeb Hafi
Torrential flood-tides leave over 12,85000 Asian children prone to life-long disabilities?Already at high vulnerability, over 250,000 Rohingya children most endangered?Scarce upsurge of deadly Leptospirosis at post-disastrous situations scenes?Specter zones crossing normal parameters of vector-borne diseases?High-risk alarm for Myanmar?s ?dying-alive? Rohingya children's increased mortality & enslavement?UN agencies warned for ?Heightened Aftermath
Risks??1st Asian Post-DESPO DRR Appraisal 2015
SINGAPORE, September 28, 2015 /PressReleasePing/ - The 1st Asian 'Post-Disaster
Epidemiological Susceptibilities and Pandemic Outbreak' assessment, (DESPO-Asia
Appraisal 2015), austerely warns of the worsening situation in the conjoint 'two-fold' or 'bieffect aftermath' of cyclone KOMEN and high tides from the heavy monsoon.
According to the Global Emergency Overview by ACAPS, the recent flooding has been reported as "the worst flooding in 200 years."
The torrential tides of cyclone Komen that have already swamped considerably abundant parts of Asia, carried high epidemics along with it; putting the children and disabled at risk.
These risks may include life-long ailments; DESPO's P.I. and chief epidemiologist Prof Qadhi
Aurangzeb Al Hafi has notified the UN agencies and the concerned authorities of the affected countries of the Asian floods of 2015.
According to Post-DESPO appraisal, "A considerable number of cases suggest 'evident presence' of Leptospirosis, that is appearing for the 1st time at a substantial extent, on postdisastrous scenes in recent history of natural catastrophes."
Malnutrition rates in children, particularly those in Bangladesh's and Myanmar's refugees camps is becoming thrice the emergency threshold, measured as per the UN's WFP-WHO laid parameters, cautions DESPO-Asia

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