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Denver-Based Aid Group Helps In Myanmar

DENVER (CBS4) ― A woman who works from a Denver-based aid agency plans to take medicine into cyclone ravaged Myanmar sometime on Monday. She's carrying enough medicine for 40,000 people.

Cathy Bradner and her husband are among the few allowed easy access into the country formerly known as Burma. Curt Bradner developed a water purification system as part of the group called Thirst Aid.

The military government in Myanmar approved of the Bradners' cleansing project and granted them entry permits last summer.

Days after the cyclone hit, Curt Bradner arrived in Myanmar to rebuild his water purification system and has been reporting back to his wife in Thailand.

"People are going to be getting desperate in the delta region," Cathy Bradner told CBS4 by telephone. "It's probably beyond anything I saw in the tsunami region because there aren't as much, isn't as much international aid."

Bradner said Cholera has broken out in the small villages of the delta area. The largest Myanmar city of Yangon has seen power restored along with water and telephone service.

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