The risk to get infections is very high among flood victims. The most common flood-related diseases are included infections diseases such as gastrointestinal disease, dermatitis, conjunctivitis and leptospirosis. LEPTOSPIROSIS is a water-borne disease carried in rat urine. The symptoms leptospirosis is include diarrhea, vomiting and liver or kidney problem. Vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria also occur in the early weeks following the flooding. Other flood-related diseases which are not mentioned in the article are thypoid and cholera. Both diseases are carried by dirty water. I read the article in the internet (News: Malaysia: Flood-Dec 2006) by the health ministry’s director for disease control, Ramlee Rahmat said that respiratory infections also broken out among flood victims. The way to curb the diseases such as leptospirosis, dermatitis is must wear the glove and rubber boots during the cleaning process in the house. Because, there are still lots of mud and puddles and that’s a perfect environment for bacteria. After the cleaning process, they must wash hands properly. The victims of flood must wear proper clothes for covered their bodies from infected. And the parents especially should warn their children to do not play dirty water. The flood victims must refrain from taking pets and livestock to evacuation centres to prevent the disease spread from animal to human. The victim also to make sure they drink the clean water and must boiled the water before drink. During and after flood are very important to monitor and prevent the flood victims from getting flood-related diseases.
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