Typhoon agricultural losses and disease threats

[Treyfish]

:tiphat:A few stories, the first is about large animal drownings and people upset about the stink and where the animals are buried and the risk of disease spread. Too many to burn, police were called to quell the protesters.. sounds messy


Buries the pig corpse guard to ferment the police people to conflict

14/08/2009, Friday in the afternoon 06:27


Taiwan south area flood casualty rises unceasingly, in addition the massive domestic animal corpse sends out the odor, the disaster area faced with the eruption epidemic situation threat,

the domestic animal which the Taina County government night before last will die delivers settles Ding Town trash to bury field processing, because the odor four overflow, the nearby resident worries the initiation epidemic situation, occupies the highway, throws the firecracker, the gasoline bomb impediment, the period several hundred people erupts the serious body conflict with the police officer, in the event more than ten injured.

Stinks to high heaven annoys the resident to be discontented

South Taiwan has 100,000 pigs only to drown executes, several thousand chicken duck death, the poultry corpse started decayed, the cremated factory is unable the stitch in time, the epidemic situation is ready to be set off at a touch, the Taina County government therefore transports 40,000 dead pigs to settles Ding Town to bury urgently, but the pig corpse stinks to high heaven, the corpse water to flow the drop along the road, initiates the local countryman to be discontented, large quantities of populace to buried the field entrance to protest in the afternoon the day before yesterday, prevented to transport the pig corpse truck turnover.
To the evening, the accumulation population have been getting more and more, several hundred residents and occupy the federal highway eight highways to carry stably a street intersection, prevents the vehicles process. The Taina County police increase several hundred anti-riot police to arrive urgently.
The police are persuading under to drive away the populace forcefully invalid many times, initiates both sides to conflict, causes more than ten injured, in the event nine people are arrested by the police. Tainan County Magistrate Su Huanzhi indicated that because the locality has large quantities of poultry death, a pig volume is huge, is unable in the crematory to burn completely, if these corpses are unable to process immediately, possibly detonates the integrity infectious disease, with buries the procedure which way processing has to, hoped that the populace forgive and take the entire situation into account. :tiphat:http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/tran...l/news/chinaNews/Detail.do?type=odn&id=151490

:yinyang:"Morak" Taiwan's agricultural losses caused by tens of billions of fish loss nearly hitting a new high of 19 years
中国养殖网​

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2009-8-14 9:04:19 中国台湾网​

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据台湾?中央社?报道，台?农委会?今天上午公布最新农损统计，农业产物及民间设施毁损计97亿8356万元（新台币，下同），逼近百亿元。​

According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency" reported that Taiwan's "Council of Agriculture," published this morning, the latest loss of agricultural statistics, agricultural products and non-governmental facilities, 9.7 billion dollars damage to 83.56 million yuan (NT, the same below), which was close to tens of billions of dollars.

其中渔产损失39亿3862万元，创近19年新高纪录。​

Loss of 3.9 billion fish which 38.62 million yuan, nearly 19 years hit a record high. {snip}
:tiphat:http://tinyurl.com/nxnuh6

:yinyang:....Poultry and livestock losses amounted to NT$1.34 billion, with 119,476 hogs, 5,738,000 chickens and 1,088,000 ducks perishing in the storm.

Meanwhile, 684 hectares of farmland worth an estimated NT$1.37 billion were washed away, with the eastern county of Taitung and Kaohsiung suffering the most. A total of 1,474 hectares of land in the two counties were buried under debris or carried away by floodwater.

The agricultural losses also included an estimated NT$192 million in damage to farming facilities.

The COA statistics also show that the aquaculture sector incurred an estimated NT$3.81 billion in financial losses, an 18-year high for losses resulting from a single storm.

A combined 6,470 hectares of fish farms in southern Taiwan were severely damaged by Morakot, the worst typhoon to hit Taiwan in half a century. Of the damaged aquaculture farm areas, 1,531 hectares were coastal fish ponds. :tiphat:http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=164415&CtNode=10

 

[Treyfish]

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The disaster area water used is unclean fears explodes the epidemic situation
17/08/2009, Monday in the afternoon 09:05

Caption: Puts on guards against clothing's soldier to enter the disaster area, examines the farm death chicken. (Associated Press picture)



South central Taiwan the flood disaster situation had still not alleviated, the disaster area fears the eruption epidemic situation. Because many victimized persons doubt the water used not to be unclean, large quantities of disaster victims present the skin mark 癢, the roseola symptom,
because the Gaoxiong County six turtle township partial disaster victims the wound presents the honeycomb organization inflammation, after various disaster areas have launched the disaster, disinfects the work.
Moreover, because many disaster victims and the victim family member the psychological wound presents the acute pressure to respond, urgently needed psychological counselling.


The villagers skin has the roseola
After the regional disaster area flood retreats gradually, is flooded the village full cloth silt, the street mud, finds at everywhere the deadwood rotten leaf, has the village often to spread the intermittent putrid stench, the person who perish corpse water flow, the hygiene condition is everywhere worrying. Because the water used is unclean, has the villagers to present the skin mark one after another 癢, symptoms and so on roseola; The unauthorized biography water serious Pingdong County Linbian Town, has the tetanus lethal case.
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Indicated in Gaoxiong County six turtle township's medical station guarding northern glory emergency medical treatment department doctor in charge Gao Weifeng, when many disaster victims escape in panic, the both feet soaks on muddy � yin A some person of feet has the wound originally or contracts diabetes, causes the bacterium invasion, over 50% disaster victims present the honeycomb organization inflammation, an eighty year-old man swells the calf from the sole, the leg is likely same.
Disaster victims besides body's grief, is also withstanding the psychological pressure.
It is reported that many disaster victims present the acute pressure to respond that easy anxious, the fear, the vitality, losing sleep, the child midnight not to dare to go to bathroom, to wet the bed, sends the nightmare. The psychological expert believed that the disaster victims lose kiss and the homeland sincere, must express psychological the feeling, can go out creates the pain.
:tiphat:http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/tran...l/news/chinaNews/Detail.do?type=tsn&id=155986​

 

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my summary: ~$15B damage in Taiwan from the latest Typhoon (=hurricane)

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