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epidemicOutbreak of infectious disease affecting large numbers of people at the same time. A widespread epidemic that sweeps across many countries (such as the Black Death in the late Middle Ages) is known as a pandemic. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Closing Insite would be both a public health disaster and a huge economic waste," Dr. The Environmental Health Disaster Scenario program conducts group role-modeling activities based around contamination or pollution emergencies at the beginning of the BAHEC's Youth to Health Careers Summer Program as part of a health expo that features different careers in public health. Dr Tim Gill, co-director of the NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition, said the situation was 'a health disaster in the making' and that 'for the first time we have a generation that has a shorter life expectancy. |
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