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The world is now all too familiar with images of the destruction caused by the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia on December 26 of last year. In a natural disaster, there are three stages of injury: injury or death when the disaster strikes, survival of the immediate threat but death from injuries induced by the event, and illness and death due to diseases that arise from the destruction of the public health infrastructure. Now, two months after the tsunami, and after the recorded deaths of more than 150,000 people, the world is poised to see whether the third stage will . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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