Photo: Disease Feared in Flooded Southeast Mexico



These children are among tens of thousands of people fleeing flooded areas in Tabasco, Mexico.

President Felipe Calderón said Thursday that floods in southeastern Mexico this year are "one of the worst disasters in the history of the country."

Photograph by America Rocio/AP


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