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Wherever there are floods from a hurricane, the waters are very dirty,” said Frantz Metellus, a national consultant for the Pan American Health Organization. “The water source in Limbe was contaminated. We found fecal matter, which is very dangerous,” he said. Typhoid is an infectious disease caused by ingesting contaminated food or water. It is characterized by fever and intestinal disorders. Dengue is an infectious disease carried and transmitted by mosquitoes, who thrive in wet environments. Dengue is characterized by fever and pain in the joints. Both typhoid and dengue can be fatal. Dr. Hugo Prado, director of the PAHO disaster preparedness program in Washington and just back from the Dominican Republic and Haiti, said the cases of diseases reported since the storm did not constitute an outbreak. “There’s always typhoid in Haiti. Its endemic,” he said. But he said PAHO has raised money to pay for special bacterial controls, the provision of safe water and safe sanitation practices to avoid an outbreak. “There is a possibility that we might have an outbreak if some specific measures are not taken,” he said. The storm killed 265 people in the Dominican Republic and 172 people in neighboring Haiti. DAMAGE ESTIMATES Meanwhile, the Insurance Services Office Inc. reported that Georges caused at least $2.5 billion in insured damages to homes, businesses and other property in the United States and its island territories — making it the third-costliest on record. The damage from Georges alone almost eclipses the $2.6 billion insurers paid out in catastrophe claims for all of last year, according to preliminary industry estimates released Wednesday. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. мЅe#Р 5ˆ S ,l,l  Њ‹(ь˜Tю ‹Times New Roman Symbol ArialTIMES NEW ROMANTimes New Roman ARIAL ArialTimes New RomanDisease threatens Caribbean Flooding from storm heightens risk of typhoid, dengue fever MSNBC NEWS SERVICES SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Oct. 7 Health officials in the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday feared potential outbreaks of typhoid and other diseases linked to flooding from Hurricane Georges. IN SANTO DOMINGO, where 16,500 people are crowded into shelters more than two weeks after the storm barreled through the Caribbean, one doctor reported five cases of typhoid at one refugee center and said there also were reports of dengue fever. In Haiti, about a dozen cases of typhoid were reported in the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where health officials said there was a high amount of fecal contamination in a potable water source in Limbe, a neighboring village. “Following the flooding after the hurricane, latrines were flooded and submerged in water. Wherever there are floods from a hurricane, the waters are very dirty,” said Frantz Metellus, a national consultant for the Pan American Health Organization. “The water source in Limbe was contaminated. We found fecal matter, which is very dangerous,” he said. Typhoid is an infectious disease caused by ingesting contaminated food or water. It is characterized by fever and intestinal disorders. Dengue is an infectious disease carried and transmitted by mosquitoes, who thrive in wet environments. Dengue is characterized by fever and pain in the joints. Both typhoid and dengue can be fatal. 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