Gaza's Camps Are Becoming Disease Incubators — And That's a Public-Health Threat That Won't Stay Contained
When sewage pools between tents and rats move through camps full of waste, you're no longer looking at a shelter crisis — you're looking at the early conditions for an epidemic. Al Jazeera reports that Gaza's displaced families are living without working sanitation, and that's the kind of environment that historically breeds outbreaks faster than bombs kill.
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This isn't a story about markets or oil — it's about whether basic sanitation collapses fast enough to turn a displacement crisis into a disease crisis. The presence of rats, sewage, and waste-filled tents are the precursor conditions epidemiologists watch for, and in an enclosed population, the window between 'bad conditions' and 'outbreak' can be measured in weeks.
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