Floods in Thailand create Diseases and Anxiety

The Ministry of Public Health revealed that approximately 400,000 people had fallen ill from water borne diseases as floods carry on to wreak havoc across the nation.

Permanent Secretary for Public Health MD Paijit Warachit said so far there were 367,656 reported to have thin diseases that came with the floods the number of new patients increased by as many as 5,000 per day, but none of them has urbanized any severe symptoms.

The common diseases found during the flood consist of athlete’s foot, flu, muscle pains, skin diseases and anxietyatients started to expand symptoms because the water levels have not receded the Public Health Ministry has instruct local hospitals and the Government Pharmaceutical Organization to produce and deal out medications to flood victims to treat those diseases.

Cambridge students told to stay out of river

(IANS) Students of Cambridge University cover been warn to stay out of the Cam river after a couple of them were detect with a potentially terminal water-borne disease. The Weil's disease is extending by animal urine in water, and two students had to be in use to hospital after they showed symptom of the disease, the Telegraph reported.

The bacterial disease - also called leptospirosis - is contracted when infected water comes into contact with eyes or broken skin. University students usually jump into the river after celebrating the end of exams. But nurses at the university report a rise in the number of pupils complaining of vomiting and diarrhoea, leading to establishment warning students not to enter the water.

Mark Wormald, chairman of the university's not compulsory group on communicable diseases, alert students in an email.Weil's disease is unusual in Britain with just 40 cases diagnose annually. Still one or two people die each year of the disease.

Downpour break comes with disease rider

The city has witnessed little rainfall in the long-ago few days and is not likely to get lashed by heavy downpour for a few extra days, say weathermen. But the happy break beginning incessant rains comes with a rider as the 'null period' has send humidity level soaring and set the stage for the outburst of vector and water-borne diseases.

The highest temperature recorded in Colaba and Santa Cruz was 32.8C and 32.3C, respectively, yesterday. Humidity levels are also recorded higher than normal."Monsoon is not estimated on a regular basis for the duration of null periods when downpour stops and humidity levels rise.

There might be no rainfall for the next one or two days, but we are expectant that the depression in the eastern parts of the country will regularly move towards the western side," said V K Rajeev, director of Indian Meteorological Department, western region. Higher humidity levels not simply make the weather sultry, they also cause outburst of more than a few respiratory and vector borne diseases.