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Epidemiology and History of Natural Disasters and Mass Casualties

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So far in just 13 years of the twenty-first century, we have seen a full range of man-made and natural disasters. Climate change [1, 2] has been implicated in the severe weather responsible for floods in England and Wales [3] and India [4] and hurricanes on the Atlantic coast of the United States [5] but still more worrying is the effect of climate change on more chronic weather patterns affecting the monsoon rainfall and rice crop in India [6] and droughts occurring across sub-Saharan Africa expanding the desert further south [7]. According to Eichenseher,

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    Sakal Kiv MSci, MD Candidate, Nathan Douthit MD Candidate & Avram Shack MD Candidate

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    Seema Biswas FRCS, DMCC

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Kiv, S., Douthit, N., Shack, A., Biswas, S. (2016). Epidemiology and History of Natural Disasters and Mass Casualties. In: Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (eds) Orthopedics in Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48950-5_2

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