Patients cut one another's hair to combat the lice that spread without sanitation.
As concern spread about sanitation, Katmandu District authorities banned meat, hoping to prevent communicable diseases.
Cholera spreads where sanitation is lacking and health systems are minimal.
In 1987, 29,000 tons of rubbish a day was being dumped there and spread by 650 sanitation workers across a sprawling 2,200-acre 2,200-acre
A unit of the French pharmaceutical group, Aventis, which sells the vaccine in Europe in a joint venture with Merck, disclosed in December that it was recalling batches of pre-filled syringes because they might not be potent enough to protect against the virus, which is spread by poor sanitation and can cause liver damage.
The same poison is now entering crops and more of the food chain.Filthy water and bad sanitation spread diseases, such as diarrhoea and cholera, which kill hundreds of thousands of Indian children every year, says Unicef, the UN's children's agency.
Cholera is spread through poor sanitation and hygiene practices and contaminated drinking water.
Children who are not immunized or who are malnourished are much more susceptible to the diseases that are spread through poor sanitation.
The club offers activities including drama, public debate, and singing, all of which prepare students to spread hygiene and sanitation messages around their communities.
Shanta and her club members use the format of the 'dohori' (duet) songs, popular in Dang, to spread knowledge about sanitation and hygiene to the Tharu population.
