Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Friday, October 03, 2014

Statement From The UN Mission For Ebola Emergency Response Regarding Transmission Of Ebola

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Credit WHO   # 9145   In a sane world, an official could at least raise the possibility of low probability-high impact event wit...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Global Mercury Ban Exempts Thimerosol Preservatives

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  # 6875   In December of last year (see AAP Endorses SAGE Recommendations Keeping Thimerosal In Vaccines ) I wrote on the debat...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Building Disaster Resilient Cities

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      # 6326   Around the globe cities are increasingly where jobs are to be found, and where goods and services are most likely t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

UN Agency Warns On Global Seismic Risks

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    Seismically active areas of the world # 6081     While major earthquakes are normally associated with the Pacific rim, or ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

IDDR: Stepping Up For Disaster Risk Reduction

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    # 5893   The second Wednesday of October has been designated International Day For Disaster Reduction (IDDR) by the United N...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Beyond Pandemics: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Disaster Preparedness

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    # 5835     The United Nations and USAID – along with other partners that include WFP , WHO , UNWTO , and the FAO – has...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

EID Journal: Understanding Haiti’s Cholera Outbreak

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    # 5543       There’s an old story about a guy who fears his wife may be cheating on him, so he he hires a private detecti...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

The Wide World Of Reports

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    # 5497     It’s a busy world out there, with literally scores of disease outbreaks, disasters, and other significant events ta...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Cholera Outbreak Map Of Haiti

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    # 5069     Although Crofsblog   is doing most of the heavy lifting when it comes to blogging about the cholera outbreak in Hai...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

IMCAPI Conference Closes

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    # 4516   IMCAPI , the International Ministerial Conference On Animal and Pandemic Influenza being attended by representatives f...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

UN: Global Report on Animal and Pandemic Influenza (Draft)

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      # 4499   Later this month public health officials from more than 80 countries will meet in Hanoi for the 7th annual Internat...