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Field Report: Medical Response to Super Typhoon Haiyan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2015

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Michael Noone*
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Emergency Medical Services Agency, Santa Fe Springs, CaliforniaUSA
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Correspondence: Michael Noone Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Emergency Medical Services Agency 10100 Pioneer Blvd., Suite 200 Santa Fe Springs, California 90670 USA E-mail: MNoone@dhs.lacounty.gov
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Abstract

Event: Typhoon (high-velocity winds and flooding from storm surge/rains)

Event Onset Date: November 8, 2013

Location of Report: Tacloban, Leyte Island, Philippines

Geographic Coordinates: latitude 11°13m N, longitude 125°1m E; elevation: 3 meters

Response Dates: November 18-28, 2013

Response Type: Medical Relief (Humanitarian)

Keywords

disaster planningdisaster responseparamedic practice
Type
Special Reports
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 30 , Issue 5 , October 2015 , pp. 543 - 544
Copyright
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2015 

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