Disease warnings in flood-hit India, Nepal

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SAHARSA, (India), Sept 2 (AFP) Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers warned Tuesday.brThey said several camps in India's northern Bihar state and across the border in Nepal, areas devastated when a monsoon-swollen river which burst its banks and changed course, were already reporting cases of diarrhoea and other crippling illnesses.brA large part of Bihar is under water, and 550,000 people have been displaced . An estimated 400,000 people also still need to be rescued, state officials said. At least 60,000 people have also had their homes washed away in southern Nepal.brIt's normal when there are a lot of people to have some cases, but when you have a number of cases, it becomes a concern and we have to do active surveillance, UNICEF emergency specialist Mukesh Puri told AFP.