There is still room for good news:
The initial warnings of a spread of disease through the quake-affected areas have proved largely unfounded. The UN World Health Organization, which initiated a Disease Early Warning System soon after the quake, and has been monitoring the situation in Pishin and Ziarat, has noted that acute respiratory infections are responsible for nearly 50 percent of medical consultations in the area - no higher than in the 'peak season' in previous years.
Adequate supplies of food also seem to have reached victims, with families saying 'we suffered no shortages after the earliest days.'
However, post-quake water shortages have added to the difficulties of people in an area where fruit growing is a key means of livelihood. 'The water channel from a nearby stream that I used for watering my apple trees is useless as the stream is now dry,' said Azeem Khan.
Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), which is coordinating the relief effort, said 710 houses were completely destroyed, another 4,524 were badly damaged and over 4,600 suffered minor damage.
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This is good to hear. I wish Hurricane Katrina victims were luckier with long-term side effects. Natural Disasters are hard to deal with in general. They come from nowhere. You have everything running smoothly and then BOOM 200 dead a thousand injured and more without homes and lost loved ones.
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