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The Swedish government responded by shipping Disease: “The Second Wave” 63 enough vaccine to Sri Lanka and southern India to provide inoculations for 200,000 people. Several drug companies moved quickly to make contributions. , gave $3 million in cash and $25 million worth of medicines. Merck & Company gave $3 million and said it would also donate drugs. Closer to the scene of destruction, the Indonesian drug company Bio Farma sent 15,000 doses of typhoid vaccine into Aceh province. Drug companies were not the only ones helping to increase supplies.
A Wall of Water” Banda Aceh, the closest city to the quake’s epicenter, was hit the hardest by the tsunami. Here, a woman mourns the loss of her seven children and 38 relatives in her extended family amidst the debris. More than 100,000 people were killed in Indonesia from the tsunami, and many more remain missing. When the wave hit, she was pushed ashore and managed to hook one arm around a concrete railing. With her free arm, she grabbed a small boy out of the water and lifted him to safety.
While the death toll was high in such places, it was even higher in coastal areas where Pournami pilgrims gathered. At Manginapudi, for instance, about 300 people were wading in the surf, symbolically washing away their sins. Almost everyone was killed when the tsunami hit. A large truck that had been carrying about 100 people was later washed ashore. Fifty of the passengers were dead; the others were missing. One of the survivors, who only gave his name as “Bajee,” had tried to reach his young son as the wave came ashore, but it was too late.