December 30, 2004
Clean Water & Sanitation Weapons Needed
A masked man moves to spray the dead bodies to kill the bad smell and disinfect a temple where some 600 bodies are piled up in Khao Lak, north of the devastated Thai tourist resort island of Phuket. Cholera, malaria and typhoid are the worst diseases stalking the survivors of Asias tsunami calamity and the weapons against them are clean water and sanitation, relief agencies say.(AFP/Saeed Khan)
~Were we always at war with nature, with human and animal by-products?