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Oxfam: Myanmar on brink of catastrophe

05-12-2008

BANGKOK, Thailand — An estimated 1.5 million Myanmarese are on the brink of a 'massive public health catastrophe,' the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday, as desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other help.

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