With the death toll from a massive earthquake in China now above 67,000, the government aims to prevent new deaths by protecting survivors from possible floods and the threat of a disease outbreak. Jamila Trindle reports from Beijing.



Chinese health officials said Tuesday that they have begun the country's largest public health effort in recent history to guard against the threat of epidemics among survivors of the Sichuan earthquake.

Concern about possible outbreaks is rising not only because survivors are living in cramped, sometimes unsanitary areas, but also because the threat of disease is always higher in the summer. Officials say there have been cases of diarrhea, tuberculosis, and hepatitis among survivors, and they are monitoring the cases closely.

Ministry of Health official Chen Xian Yi says researchers have compared the current outbreaks with disease patterns before the quake.

Chen says that they have found that there are no more cases after the earthquake. In other words, he says, so far, there has been no big outbreak of disease.

While health workers focus on disease, soldiers are trying to evacuate an additional 80,000 people from around a lake that formed when a landslide dammed a river during the quake. With heavy rains expected in the coming days, there are fears the dam could give way suddenly, causing a flood that could endanger more than a million people. More than 70,000 people evacuated the area earlier.


how deeply the disaster affect the people in china. If you want to see the coordination of chineese people even in this critical situation read the ppt . http://naveendavisv.googlepages.com/Earthquake11.ppt

A Crorepati who lives in a HUT!

http://noelatwork.blogspot.com/2008/05/crorepati-who-lives-in-hut.html is really touching blog entry. If you read this blog, then you have lot questions and doubts about entrepreneurship. E Sarathbabu, a self made enterpreneur gives you lot of confidence to start a business. His life is ansewer to who is an entrepreneur ?, Who can start a business and from where you get courage to face problems in business ??

Entering into Insurance Domain

I am doing LOMA certification. For that I am getting a Insurance Class. Actually this is a fully new subject to me. Lot of terms that are unknown to me. First three classes really tough to get, because teachers, sorry BA(business analyst), they are starting with insurance terms and also I had missed first 7 chapters.Anyway I started to new area of knowledge, more related business and money.

ubuntu counting my patience

I tried to get play audio and video in Ubuntu Linux. But it's showing "Totem could not start up" message. After that I went for downloading some other player.Then Synaptic Package Manager is showing some error like

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)


this. I tried toinstall php also in ubuntu. But it also failed. 'apt-get install' is also not working. Now I am totaly upset.

Sea bath

This is very hot season in chennai. Actually people call these days as Agni Nakshatram( burning star).In room I cann't sit, fortunately power cut is also there in my place( ha ha) .Today I got a chance to bath in sea. Really enjoyable.I went to Basant Nagar Beach at 5.30 pm.I called my hcl
friends also.Lot of people were enjoying the sea bath till I came
back(7.45 pm).Actually the water is not good for bath because it is
mixed with sand as well as some dirty things. Anyway after a long time I took bath in sea.
If there were more trees in chennai , it would have really helpful to escape from these hot season. Instead of trees, only building are here. It will only help to increase the temperature.The thing I understood , I have AC in my office, but the cooling I got from the sea shore had some more safty or calmness than I am getting from office.