Aid workers scrambled to get food, water and medicine to the millions marooned in flood-hit South Asia following an outbreak of diarrhea and other waterborne disease in northern India, officials said Aug. 7.

At least 368 people have died as a result of recent monsoon downpours and floods in India and Bangladesh.

The threat of waterborne disease is high because wells have been contaminated by floodwaters, said L.B. Prasad, director general of health in Uttar Pradesh state.

More than 1,000 people are reported sick, mainly from cholera and gastroenteritis in the Maharajganj, Gorakhpur and Bara Banki districts of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, Prasad told media Aug. 7.

Officials have blamed the flooding on an unusual monsoon pattern.