With up to 1.5 million people in Burma left homeless by the Cyclone Nargis, the people are now believed to be facing the threat of starvation and disease. Rotting bodies of people and animals are piled up in many places across southern Irrawady delta. The official government death toll from the cyclone is 22,997, but the top American diplomat in Myanmar , Shari Villarosa, said Wednesday that the toll could rise to 100,000 if aid did not reach survivors soon. A military official in the town of Labutta estimated 80,000 dead there alone, Agence France-Presse reported. According to The New York Times, there are thousands of aid workers inside Myanmar already. Save the Children has a staff of 500 there and has been able to provide 63,000 families with plastic sheeting, food, water purification tablets and other supplies. CARE has a staff of 500, Doctors Without Borders has staff members there, and the United Nations has 1,500 people in Myanmar . But the scale of the disaster dwar