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Public Health Emergencies, Cancer, and the Legacy of Katrina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Frederick M. Burkle Jr.
Frederick M. Burkle Jr.*
Affiliation:
Senior Fellow and Scientist, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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E-mail: skipmd77@aol.com
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Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 291 - 292
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2007

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