11.   Meanwhile, health workers are battling to ward off epidemics and respiratory infections among the thousands of people, especially children, still living in crowded shelters.

12.   Officials are increasing eager to move people from crowded shelters -- prime breeding grounds for disease -- since a recent outbreak of influenza.

13.   That further taxes the already crowded shelters in Poland, where post-communist economic reforms have left millions jobless.

14.   That was the last day classes were held at Argentina Girls School before Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras, turning the school into a crowded shelter.

15.   The rest are crammed in crowded shelters and homes in the north.