[DIPECHO Network] FW: Update on the Myanmar Cyclone Disaster_message from Ilan Kelman

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-----Original Message-----

From: Ilan Kelman [mailto:ilan_kelman at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:24 PM
To: dipecho at disasterpreparedness.icimod.org
Subject: Re: [DIPECHO Network] Update on the Myanmar Cyclone Disaster

> Nargis has emerged as
> the deadliest cyclone to have struck the Asian land ever....

The November 1970 cyclone which struck Bangladesh killed
225,000-500,000 people.  The April 1991 cyclone which struck Bangladesh
killed at least 138,000 people.  These numbers are from Bern et al.,
1993, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 71, pp. 73-76. 
Bangladesh learned from these horrors and has set up an impressive
cyclone warning and shelter system.  

Ilan


 
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