Angelina Jolie listens to a displaced woman in Dadu, Pakistan, on Tuesday following devastating rains and floods. Photo: Saima Javaid/IRC Handout via Reuters
Angelina Jolie listens to a displaced woman in Dadu, Pakistan, on Tuesday following devastating rains and floods. Photo: Saima Javaid/IRC Handout via Reuters
Pakistan

As Angelina Jolie visits, Pakistan fears surge in flood-borne diseases, deaths could get ‘out of control’

  • Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by Pakistan’s massive floods and are living out in the open as they wait for the waters to recede
  • But that could take up to six months, officials say – as diseases like malaria, dengue fever, skin and eye infections, and acute diarrhoea proliferate

Angelina Jolie listens to a displaced woman in Dadu, Pakistan, on Tuesday following devastating rains and floods. Photo: Saima Javaid/IRC Handout via Reuters
Angelina Jolie listens to a displaced woman in Dadu, Pakistan, on Tuesday following devastating rains and floods. Photo: Saima Javaid/IRC Handout via Reuters
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