41.   Wong said the Chinese Red Cross has started to supply water purification tablets and disinfectants to prevent the spread of skin and intestinal diseases that follow floods.

42.   Bihac health authorities reported an upsurge in cases of tuberculosis as well as of infectious jaundice and intestinal diseases due to lack of water and poor hygiene.

43.   Diarrhoea, an intestinal disease, spreads through water contaminated by human excreta.

44.   Most of the latest victims died as a result of water-borne intestinal diseases, mainly diarrhoea, which is fatal unless treated quickly.