[CedarDave]

From here:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

4:03 P.M. - (AP) Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services, announced he had declared a public health emergency in the area stretching from Louisiana to Florida. "We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and dehydrating diseases that could come as a result of the stagnant water and the conditions," he said.

[sinkspur]

4:03 P.M. - (AP) Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services, announced he had declared a public health emergency in the area stretching from Louisiana to Florida. "We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and dehydrating diseases that could come as a result of the stagnant water and the conditions," he said.

It won't take long for these diseases to break out. Anyone alive must be removed as quickly as possible.

If cholera does break out, authorities will have no choice but to burn all the dead. The risk of these bodies being moved and spreading disease is simply too great.