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The U.N. World Health Organisation (WHO) is setting up a surveillance system in the quake-affected area to detect and control outbreaks of communicable diseases, including diarrhoea.
This was a key feature of disease control in Aceh after the tsunami, the agency says. It will also help organise vaccination campaigns against measles, which it says can be a major killer and spreads rapidly in crowded areas."
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