BEIJING, June 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Hundreds of displaced women and children in Indonesia lined up Wednesday as the country started to immunize more than 1.5 million people across the quake zone against measles and tetanus after earthquake hit on May 27.

   Health experts said Thursday that the threat of disease was high with people displaced by the quake. They hoped to immunize 323,000 children against measles and to give tetanus vaccines to some 1.24 million adults over the next five days.

    "We are racing against time," said Gandung Hermanto, head of the surveillance division at the health department in Bantul, the district hardest hit by the quake.

    The earthquake in central Java island killed more than 6,000 people, leaving more than 200,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Enditem