Miss. Residents Say Health Warning Lacking

[Eugene]

http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050909/APA/509090618&cachetime=5

Miss. Residents Say Health Warning Lacking

By DAVID ROYSE
Associated Press Writer

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While attention remains fixed on the medical emergency in New Orleans,
clogged roads and communication breakdowns in some parts of devastated
Mississippi have cut residents off from hospitals, the Red Cross and
dire health warnings.

Bottled water and donated food have reached churches and the
neighborhood handout points. But doctors and emergency aid workers
have gone unseen, let alone the critical public health warnings that
could help save residents from dangerous diseases.

"We've got a first aid station in the church, but not to where we're
practicing medicine," said Jill Leggett, volunteering to hand out
water at the Lighthouse Apostolic Holiness Church. "If the
(conditions) here are going to affect people, they need to tell
people or get them out of here."

Medical officials and political leaders are worrying that the word -
and the medicine - aren't spreading. Democratic Rep. Gene Taylor has
urged FEMA to send 150,000 doses of tetanus vaccine to the coast now.

Federal public health teams are stationed at various points around the
Gulf Coast, but are typically set up at hospitals or central locations
- not deep in the areas where conditions are worst. These days the
residents of Point Cadet have little or no transportation. The lack
of phone service and electricity - no TV and only car or battery-
powered radio - has kept them cut off from news.

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[tedoll78]

1. Well.. it's Blanco and Nagin's fault.

Yup. Uh-huh.

[nookiemonster]

2. Isn't that the truth!

Nevermind that it was Mississippi, ran by a Republican governor and former RNC chairman.

Funny that the RW talking heads always forget about Mississippi.

So telling.

[wakeme2008]

3. A friend emailed me about her brother saying how WELL the aid was in Miss.

Only problem was he lives in a small coast town that is 90% WHITE.

Gee only a koolaid drinker could not connect those dots.

[Child_Of_Isis]

4. A doctor on the tele said he himself had bought

10,000 tetnus shots but they will not allow him to take them to the people.