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Risk of deadly diseases for residents
Julia Medew
January 12, 2011
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Children play in the rising Bremer River at Ipswich. Photo: Glen Hunt
RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged Queensland are at high risk of deadly disease outbreaks in coming weeks as mosquito populations boom and dangerous bacteria proliferate in flood waters, health experts say.
Queensland's Department of Health yesterday urged residents to protect themselves against mosquitoes, and potentially contaminated drinking supplies and flood waters.
It said there was increased risk of wound infections, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and ear, nose and throat infections from polluted waters, but also highlighted the possibility of melioidosis, a disease caused by bacteria in soil, and leptospirosis, a serious illness caused by bacteria in animal urine.
It advised residents in Gayndah, Mundubbera, Atkinson Dam, Somerset Dam, Toowoomba, Condamine and Dalby to boil drinking water because supplies were unsafe....
Risk of deadly diseases for residents
Julia Medew
January 12, 2011
.
Children play in the rising Bremer River at Ipswich. Photo: Glen Hunt
RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged Queensland are at high risk of deadly disease outbreaks in coming weeks as mosquito populations boom and dangerous bacteria proliferate in flood waters, health experts say.
Queensland's Department of Health yesterday urged residents to protect themselves against mosquitoes, and potentially contaminated drinking supplies and flood waters.
It said there was increased risk of wound infections, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and ear, nose and throat infections from polluted waters, but also highlighted the possibility of melioidosis, a disease caused by bacteria in soil, and leptospirosis, a serious illness caused by bacteria in animal urine.
It advised residents in Gayndah, Mundubbera, Atkinson Dam, Somerset Dam, Toowoomba, Condamine and Dalby to boil drinking water because supplies were unsafe....
