Health threats linger after Harvey's waters recede

Exposure to flood waters after a hurricane often causes negative health effects, and problems can linger even after the waters recede, experts say. The immediate health threat from hurricane flood waters is drowning, accounting for a bout 75 percent of fatalities, per the World Health Organization. And drownings don’t just occur during the height of the storm; an Australian study found that one of every four flood-drowning deaths happened when someone voluntarily went into flood waters to swim…
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