Disease fears stalk Thai capital

With peak tides passing, Thai government efforts to protect central Bangkok seem to have worked, as the commercial districts of the capital remain relatively unaffected by the nation's worst flooding in a decade.

Outside Bangkok, however, floodwaters remain. In many areas that water is full of rubbish. The polluted waters just kilometres from Bangkok raise new fears of water-borne diseases.

Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Bangkok.