Bangla struggles with disease after floods

Dhaka, Aug 16: At least 38 more people have died in Bangladesh,including two from water-borne diseases, raising the death toll in thelow-lying country's worst floods in recent years to nearly 500.

Morethan 53,000 people have contracted diarrhoea in Bangladesh, mostlycaused by eating stale food and drinking impure water. A field hospitalhas been opened in the capital, Dhaka, to treat diarrhoea patients.

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