In two months it will be known whether epidemics will follow recent floods. “The incubation period takes its own time line. An infected person can develop the disease in as long as a month”, Health Minister Larisa Catrinici told a news conference on Wednesday, Info-Prim Neo reports. In flood-hit areas water in wells and pipes is being disinfected. The process is, however, difficult because many settlements remain flooded and in those where the floodwaters retreated from the soil is too humid to allow it. So far 4 water mains have been decontaminated. The wells which haven't underwent disinfection yet will carry alert messages. Doctors are concerned about the rising incidence of acute diarrheal diseases like dysentery, salmonellosis, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis A, cholera, anthrax and others. Dr. Oleg Benes, director of the Preventive Medicine Research Center, said the highest rate of diarrheal diseases were recorded in the districts of Anenii-Noi, Causeni, and Stefan-Voda as well as on the left bank of the Nistru. The risk of cholera outbreaks will increase if the weather grows warmer. But at present the situation is under control, assured Benes. To prevent outbreaks, it is key to observe personal hygiene, apply heat in preparing food, avoid direct contact with dead animals and birds, avoid swimming and fishing in unsafe places. It is important to see a doctor when the first symptoms appear, like nausea, vomiting, pain in the abdomen, fever, and tegumental lesions.