Pakistan has started vaccinating people against deadly diseases in its quake-ravaged north, but there are no signs of epidemics breaking out there, Health Minister Mohammad Naseer Khan said on Monday. The government had also sent teams to the devastated areas of Kashmir and North West Frontier Province to fumigate the rubble covering bodies in hopes of preventing any, he said. "We have got a lot of people from the religious ministry and the CDA to pull them out and bury them respectfully," he said in an interview with Reuters, referring to the Capital Development Authority, Islamabad's town planners. "The immunization teams have been in full flow in the region for the last three days" vaccinating people against deadly diseases which often ravage survivors of major natural disasters, Khan said. "We are reaching out to the people and vaccinating them against tetanus, against cholera," he said.
