Venezuelan doctors warn of infection crisis as earthquake death toll exceeds 1,900

Over 1,900 confirmed deaths from earthquakes with thousands missing; tens of thousands displaced living in unsanitary conditions vulnerable to disease.

A week after twin earthquakes shook Venezuela and claimed more than 1,900 lives, the disaster has entered its second and perhaps more treacherous phase — not one of falling structures, but of invisible contagion spreading through crowded, waterless shelters. Doctors warn that a fragile public health system, already strained before the ground moved, may be unable to hold back the infections now threatening tens of thousands of displaced survivors. History reminds us that in the aftermath of catastrophe, it is often the slow emergencies — the ones without a single dramatic moment — that claim th

Venezuelan doctors warn of infection crisis as earthquake death toll exceeds 1,900

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