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Tsunami: Dec. 26, 2004Lessons for Public Health
Mark Oberle MD, MPH
[email protected]://faculty.washington.edu/moberle/Tsunami
Rescue efforts
Rescuers hopped on debris to get between flooded buildings, while smaller waves crashed into1st floor
Public Health Concerns
• Preparedness planning
• Treatment of acute injuries
• Food, shelter, safe water
• Person-to-person transmission– e.g., measles
• Vector borne disease: malaria, dengue (?)
• Rehabilitation medicine
• Mental health services
Lessons for all of us
• Tsunami warning signs
• Who are the first responders?
• Family Disaster Plan*
• Communications
* For more information on family disaster plans:
http://www.doh.wa.gov/phepr/handbook/family.htm
Large Tsunamis in Last 50 years
• Chile, 1960: 9.5
• Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1964: 9.2
• Indonesia, 2004: 9.0 – 9.3
• Andreanof Islands, Alaska, 1957: 9.1
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Tsunami: Dec. 26, 2004Lessons for Public Health
Mark Oberle MD, MPH
[email protected]://faculty.washington.edu/moberle/Tsunami