1.   China Central Television showed medical teams examining flood victims, distributing medicine and putting purification chemicals in vats of drinking water.

2.   China Central Television showed footage of medical teams examining flood victims, distributing medicines and putting purification chemicals in vats of drinking water.

3.   Emergency teams have also cleaned wells, but do not have enough purification chemicals to keep them clean for a long period, Kuban said.

4.   Forty tons of water purification chemicals and antibiotics to stem the spread of disease were also on the way.

5.   Medical workers have distributed plastic sheeting, blankets, water purification chemicals and medicines to try to stem the spread of cholera and dysentery.

6.   Medicine and water purification chemicals are running out even as flus and stomach illnesses rise among flood victims in northern China, a Red Cross official said Tuesday.