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 GIZO, Solomon Islands (AP) - International aid workers rushed to dig latrines and set up water purifiers in the Solomon Islands tsunami disaster zone on Saturday in a frantic bid to stop the spread of disease.
Thousands of people in the Solomons' remote western province have been displaced by Monday's 8.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, and are now living in squalid camps in the forested hills above their ruined villages. Many are too frightened to return home.
Unhygenic conditions and a lack of clean water have contributed to a few isolated cases of diarrhea and dysentery in several camps around Gizo, one of islands hardest-hit by the disaster.
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