Post-tsunami infections shortening life

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Updated November 4, 2009 09:53:15

To Samoa now where authorities are growing increasingly concered about the rising number of health issues following the September tsunami. The head of Pacific Health at Auckland University, Dr Teuila Percival, was there in Samoa when the tsunami hit, and she now says conditions such as "tsunami lung" are shortening peoples lives.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Dr Teuila Percival, head of Pacific Health at Auckland University

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