adolescence and whether rURTIs in adulthood are related to recurrent infections earlier in life. Although high prevalences of URTIs during early childhood have been reported before 4-10, no one has followed its natural course into adulthood. But in this case, not only in children upper respiratory infection, this health problem occured in adult too with 6 cases between 26 until 35 years old. This is different with the prevalence in common which upper respiratoy infection mainly occured in children. Because of this is an emergency case, there will be many possibilites to get this disease. This information might also give clues for developing more effective therapeutic and preventive strategies in emergency cases. This research also can help us to sort out which are an emergency patients that should give an emergency medicine first and which are not. It can reduce mortality or morbidity rate. There should be any further research about the treatment and strategy to treat upper respiratory infection in emergency case. In order to realize it, there should be a collaboration of government, health proffesionals and also medical students. Study Limitations and Recommendation: We acknowledged the following limitations of our study because of limited data. It needed to collected more complete data from Wasior flashflood victims. Conclusion This research has provided us with the information about the distribution of health problems and also which the most health problem that happened in Wasior is. Upper respiratory infection is the most disease among health problems with 42.2%. And it is occured most below 5 years old and 26 until 35 years old, which is this health problem occured in chidren in common. The challenge therefore is to develop therapeutic and preventive strategies
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