Over a hundred thousand souls have lost their lives in Burma as a result of a cyclone. Many more are likely to perish in the aftermath when diease arrives in the wake of the devastation of the infrastructure.
A tropical cyclone is an event of extreme weather. They can happen frequently but a cyclone with [...]
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