Doctors monitor Katrina shelters for disease

US doctors, working for the federal government and the state of Louisiana, are carefully monitoring people in dozens of shelters state-wide for outbreaks of serious and infectious diseases.

US doctors, working for the federal government and the state of Louisiana, are carefully monitoring people in dozens of shelters state-wide for outbreaks of serious and infectious diseases.

Short-term, doctors are watching for signs of viral diseases that could be linked to exposure to the nasty black water in New Orleans.

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