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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Helene-ravaged areas will feel health effects for years: ‘It’s unprecedented’

An ambulance on a flooded street lined with destroyed buildings.
Cedar Key, Florida, on 27 September. Photograph: Miguel J Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene unleashed record rainfall in parts of Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, becoming one of the deadliest hurricanes in modern times and setting up the affected regions to face years of health challenges.

Some of the effects, like the flooded manufacturing plant that produces 60% of the nation’s IV supply, will reverberate throughout the entire country.

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