Save the Children warns of disease outbreaks after Myanmar earthquake

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Save the Children warned on 7 April that children in earthquake-affected areas of Myanmar are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases including diarrhoea and cholera, following recent heavy rains and water shortages.

The text of the press release continues as follows.

Save the Children and its partners are seeing the needs of children firsthand in communities with limited access to clean water in the aftermath of the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake on 28 March.