Tragedy in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, all SE Asia

Doesn´t kimk live in Korea ff?

i heard on the news that the death toll is now 39,000. Thats alot of people...<img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Before ANYBODY asks.... I had my username BEFORE the game even existed. Thank you.

kimk is Korean but he lives in Malaysia. EDIT: Not to be pedantic Boscoe, but the presence of dead bodies is not associated with the transmission of malaria. Edited by - Recusant on 12/28/2004 11:20:55 AM

Actually, the World Health Organization´s biggest fear is the transmission of malaria by mosquito from the dead bodies. My brother was born with it and both he and my mother nearly died from it when the family was living in what was the Belgian Congo. They were there when the Congonese nationals were fighting for independance from the Belgians, and the widespread malaria at the time was attributed to the improperly buried bodies and mosquitos carrying the virus. <A href=´http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6763011/´ Target=_Blank> MSNBC Article on possible disease outbreaks </a> This is an ugly subject. Latest count is 60,000 dead. Now by far the worst natural disaster in history. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- <b> The Next Thing I Say To You Will Be True The Last Thing I Said Was False </b> Edited by - Boscoe on 12/28/2004 4:37:36 PM

I do hope my fellow countrymate, kimk reports in to tell that he is okay.

<A href=´http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4131437.stm´ Target=_Blank>BBC</a> I hate to say that this is far from the worst natural disaster in history - and is in fact dwarfed by disasters throughout history, both recent and old. A year ago, 50,000 died in Iran during a quake, a cyclone in bangladesh in 1970 killed some 500,000 and China has had several quakes where 250,000-750,000 were killed in one quake in 1976 (250k was official, but estimates at 750k). Worst I read about where quakes in 1556 or something killing 800,000 - and flooding of the yellow river in 1887 killed 900,000 people. So whilst it appears to be the worst tsunami in record - its dwarfed in comparison to other natural disasters.

Indeed. That also doesn´t take into account other disasters such as the Bubonic plague in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Sorry Boscoe, but dead bodies causing epidemics after a natural disaster is an unfortunate myth. The WHO will tell you itself <A href=´http://www.who.int/inf-pr-1999/en/pr99-42.html´ Target=_Blank>http://www.who.int/inf-pr-1999/en/pr99-42.html</a> (just search the document for the word malaria and you´ll find the section you´ll need). They do say <A href=´http://w3.whosea.org/en/Section23/Section1108/Section1835_8139.htm´ Target=_Blank>that malaria and dengue fever are a problem in Aceh</a>, but do not contribute it to anything to do with the dead bodies. The main problems are the contamination of water supplies and disruption of medical services that allows preventable diseases to kill people. The disruption of pest control may allow mosquito populations to get sufficiently out of hand but it still has nothing to do with dead bodies. Mosquitoes can sense body heat and carbon dioxide concentrations which allows them to find warm blooded animals, a cold dead body wouldn´t be on the menu.

You´re correct on the &quot;worst&quot; statement, but it is the most widespread. They´ll never get an accurate count, but it´s pretty clear now that there´ll be far more deaths than any &quot;official&quot; tally will ever give. Technically the worst was the bubonic plague in Europe where over 5 million died in the mid 14th century over a 5 year period which was 1/3 of the European population at the time. Anyway Recusant, let´s not belabor the point. Malaria spreading is one of their fears, among many other diseases such as typhoid and dysentary, due to lack of sanitation, ´nuff said. Also, the island of Sumatra and the chain of islands north of it have actually moved about 98´ (about 30 meters) from its previous position, according to geologists who tracked it on GPS. <A href=´http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/28/quake.sumatra.reut/index.html´ Target=_Blank> Article </a> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- <b> The Next Thing I Say To You Will Be True The Last Thing I Said Was False </b> Edited by - Boscoe on 12/29/2004 3:59:20 AM

Numbers as high as 100 000 dead now--and thats just people dead from the earthquake and tsunami, not people who are going to die. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I take this as a sign we aren´t necessarily going to kill ourselves off. Nature can do it for us.

well hello mr cheerful

@sw: what do you expect? Any country is first of all concerned with its own citizens. The rest are secondary to that. 10 casualties among my fellow countrymen would bother me more than 10,000 foreigners. I´m not even speaking about casualties among my acq

umm this is deppresing can we plase stop talking about death. It will only make things worse. *finishes post with bugle song*

death is never good, but its what humans live for <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> my condolences are with all and may the dead rest peacefully, and may no member of this fine fourm be among the dead

this is not good...not only did all those people die...but it moved a whole island 100 feet, AND it disrupted the rotation of the earth...who knows what the concequences of that could be...

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>AND it disrupted the rotation of the earth <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Who in their crasy mind gave this statement?

probably the same crazy people who monitored sumatra and its islands movinfg 30 meters

Aparenlty the world did get slightly moved, when I say slightly - we are talking about the day became 30 millionths of a second longer or something stupid like that.