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 As flooding in the Assam valley in eastern India worsens, those displaced by floodwaters are threatened by disease.
Assam’s floods have killed 45, affected some 3 million and have destroyed more than $2 million in crops. Water and insect-borne diseases like diarrhea and encephalitis are spreading, threatening thousands of children.
In fact, a rare outbreak of encephalitis has hit the southern state of Andhera Predesh, killing nearly 120 children in the past few months. Doctors are blaming extreme weather changes and lack of sanitation for children’s increased exposure to mosquitoes, which carry the disease, as well as their weakened immunity to the disease.
In Assam, World Vision is serving in the 15 relief camps established in the state’s hardest-hit district, Dhemaji, providing food, drinking water, medicines, and livestock vaccinations.
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