diseases do you need be concerned about and how would you protect yourself and others when a tsunami occurs?

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What diseases do you need be concerned about and how would you protect yourself and others when a tsunami occurs?

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During tsunamis number of diseases may outburst such as  

 

-First  tsunami can cause distruction and damage to property and with that it causes minor or grave physical injuiry to abide that people must have tsunami alarming system installed on costal areas and safety high altitude residance or emergency evacuation system to avoide such injuries .also to treat injuries triage system should be established with emergency response team.

-Second is diarrhoeal diseases like ameobic ,giardial diarrhoeal diseases .also outburst of cholera and salmonella infection which causes dehydration and may leads to systemic  circulatory failure .To avoide this people's may need to have safe water supply and prompt treatment line to treat such outburts after the tsunamis.

-Problems like food poisoning ,due to tsunamis safe food supply should be ensured or emergency food stock in tsunami prone areas should  always be ready .

-Risk of tetanus after injuries as precaution tetanus toxoid dose should be administered immediately to injuired .

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