Word: epidemicâ
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...more than promise assistance. "We will rebuild your town," he told the survivors who pressed around him, "even if it will not be as beautiful and charming as the historic Tabas." Meanwhile, rescue workers faced up to the grim, ultimate task in such disasters: bulldozing the ruins to prevent epidemic???even though there might still be survivors too deep to find, too weak to call out. Well diggers known as moqanis were flown in from Kerman and Yazd to repair the ancient qanats, the giant underground system of wells and canals around the Kavir desert that for centuries have brought...
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