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J&K floods: post flood receding waters poses health hazards

Till now, from Jammu & Kashmir floods, Army, Indian Air Force and National Defence Response Forces have jointly rescued 1,84,000 people. With subsiding flood waters, civic problems have come up now . Due to stored water for days together in the state may lead to an outbreak of water-borne diseases. Filth that has accumulated across the Valley, including dead remains of animals, along with impure drinking water poses a serious challenge to health authorities. As a relief measure, teams of doctors, paramedics and medicines and were carrying out mass immunisation against measles and other epidemics in the state.