http://www.komotv.com/news/printstory.asp?id=38969There were also warnings of new dangers. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said he had received a report from Biloxi, Miss., of dysentery - a painful, sometimes-fatal intestinal disease that causes dehydration.
With hot weather, mosquitos and standing water holding human waste, corpses and other contaminants, diseases such as West Nile virus, hepatitis A, salmonella and E. coli bacteria infections also are a concern, he said on CNN. "We have the ingredients for a bad situation there," Leavitt said.
Hundreds of federal health officers and nearly
100 tons of medical supplies and antibiotics were being delivered to the Gulf Coast to try to head off the problem. Federal authorities were also considering how to combat the growing mosquito population - including spraying the sewage-filled floodwaters. <snip>
"I think we need to prepare the country for what's coming," Chertoff said on "Fox News Sunday." "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine."
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