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Some 500 families have been displaced in Trans Nzoia District by the floods that have destroyed human life and vegetation.
Kenya Red Cross Society communications officer Nelly Muluka said some of the displaced families risked contracting waterborne diseases.
She said medical officers had been sent to parts of North Rift, Nyanza, Coast and North Eastern to assist displaced families.
"Public health officials have been dispatched to sensitise the families on how to avoid contracting waterborne diseases," said Ms Muluka.
Also at the risk of contracting water-borne diseases are more than 3,000 internally displaced families in transit camps in the North Rift.
"There are fears of outbreak of contagious diseases due to (poor) hygienic condition in some of the camps," warned Mr Patrick Nyongesa, Kenya Red Cross Society North Rift manager.
Comment: It's interesting that just before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, a methane gas leak forced hundreds to evacuate from their homes in Louisiana: This report from our database shows that scientists were warning of the dangers presented by methane in the Gulf of Mexico at least 5 years ago: They can forget about trying to harness this gas this as it is highly volatile and is responsible for numerous mining accidents all over the world: And in just the last month: It's also thought to be responsible for mysterious explosions and leaves a distinct smell over a wide area as it comes to the surface and expand: If there is a significant "greenhouse gas", methane is it. Methane is strongly correlated with climate change events in the past: The fact if the matter is that "big events" are not limited to millions and millions of years ago. Catastrophic climate change from cometary bombardment on a global scale took place as recently as 13,000 years ago. Regional catastrophism took place as recently as 1500 years ago. These scientists are not asking the right questions.
What if the release of methane from below the oceans is part of the mechanism to propel climate change but is not the causal factor of this mechanism? Could there be an external catalyst that periodically opens up the planet's surface to release methane? What if the quantity of methane released depends on the degree to which cometary bombardment is taking place? We are overdue the Big One and the Deepwater Horizon explosion is another sign that the planet is opening up and all humanity can do is help it along towards a mass extinction event.