DHAKA: Floods in Bangladesh that have killed nearly 600 people have also left an “exceptionally high” number of people suffering from pneumonia and other acute respiratory infections, Unicef said yesterday.
Relief workers have reported over 550 cases of pneumonia and other acute respiratory infections, one of the biggest and fastest killers of children, in camps in eastern Brahmanbaria district alone, Unicef's communications chief Naseem Ur Rehman said.
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