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Thais enduring the nation’s worst floods in decades have faced marauding crocodiles and threat of snake bites and electrocution, but health experts say the top risks are drowning and disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three months into a crisis that has ravaged the kingdom and is now encroaching on the capital Bangkok, conditions are ripe for a humanitarian disaster and aid agencies are racing to heighten awareness.<\/p>\n

“You don’t want to create mass panic,”<\/strong> said Matthew Cochrane of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “You need to find a balance between being alert and alarmed.”<\/p>\n

Inundated communities have been warned to watch out for poisonous snakes swimming in the murky floodwaters, as well as electrocution from submerged power points and dangling electricity cables.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Images of crocodiles being captured on Bangkok’s outskirts, after escaping from flooded farms where they are bred commercially, have further rattled nerves.<\/p>\n

Unusually heavy monsoon rains have swamped much of Thailand, killing more than 370 people and forcing vast numbers to seek refuge in shelters.<\/strong> The waters are now closing in on Bangkok’s city centre where they could remain for weeks.<\/p>\n

Experts say the priority is to maintain hygiene levels and aid agencies are trying to provide clean water and bathroom facilities – including floating and collapsible latrines – to tens of thousands of affected families.<\/p>\n

In a country where many cannot swim, the number one cause of death during the disaster has not been disease, but drowning, said Maureen Birmingham, the World Health Organisation’s representative in Thailand.<\/p>\n

Please give these people some relief soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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