Epidemics - new risk in floods affected areas
published in issue 3473
page 2 at 2005-07-19
The greatest danger for the floods victims in eastern Romania’s Moldavia is now represented by the numerous centres of infection, which can be sources of epidemics. In the village of Vadu Rosca, Vrancea County, several thousands cows, dogs, pigs and chicken have died drowned in the flooding. Their bodies can still be seen in the streets or even in the people’s yards. The authorities have taken measures to collect them, but the equipment cannot reach all the regions because the waters have not entirely receded. The vaccination campaign is in full swing, but many locals refuse to go to dispensaries....
Fighting the Siret
...Environment Minister said yesterday that the waters of the Siret are being discharged at Calimanesti, at a rate of 800 cu.m. per second, but this will not prompt new floods. Lucia Varga, Secretary of State in Environment Ministry, said that the new discharges will conduct to a rise of the Siret waters by a few centimetres, but there will not be any danger. “I want to make a comparison, more and more frequently used lately, with the floods of 1970, when the Siret produced a disaster. Then, the flash flood counted 3,000 cu.m. per second, while now it has been 4,500 cu.m., much more.”...
Death toll rises to 21
...Premier Calin Popescu Tariceanu announced yesterday, at Victoria Palace, after a new session of the National Emergency Committee, which was attended for the third time also by President Traian Basescu, that the number of the floods victims has reached 21 in Moldavia, after the body of a man was discovered in the village of Maicanesti, Vrancea County. The latter was actually the county where the floods made the greatest number of victims - 14....
