Flooding and mudslides have killed dozens of people in Nepal, and health officials are now battling to prevent a cholera outbreak with thousands lacking access to clean water. Three days of monsoons have caused flooding that has killed 85 people, and left more than 100 others unaccounted for, said the Nepal Health Ministry. "We are very concerned about a possible outbreak of cholera due to the bodies lying underwater," national disaster management chief Yadav Prasad Koirala told AFP. "We have mobilised health workers to set up camps and provide people with clean drinking water and dry food."
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