Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Haiti

Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Haiti
On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southern Haiti. This is the most violent earthquake that Haiti has experienced in a century. President Obama has directed his administration to respond with swift, coordinated, and aggressive efforts to save lives.

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Prepreparedness supplement released by the American Medical Association (AMA)
Since the identification of 2009-H1N1 in the spring, the virus has caused human disease worldwide and has led to the first influenza pandemic in 4 decades. Many components of the public health and medical response have been implemented well. Much of the success in the United States is due in large part to the extensive preparedness work that had been done before 2009 by public health agencies and health care institutions across the local, state, interstate regional, tribal, and federal levels

Resources for First Responders:
Responder Safety

- Working in Hot Environments (NIOSH)
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hotenvt.html

- Emergency Wound Care after a Natural Disaster (CDC)
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/woundcare.asp

- Injuries and Mass Casualty Events
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/masscasualties/injuriespro.asp

- Crush injuries
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/masscasualties/blastinjury-crush.asp

- Brain Injuries and Mass Casualty Events (CDC)
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/masscasualties/braininjuriespro.asp

- Burns in Mass Casualty Events (CDC)
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/masscasualties/burns.asp

- Psychological First Aid for First Responders (SAMHSA)
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/Disasterrelief/pubs/manemotion.asp

- Stress Prevention and Management Approaches for Rescue Workers in the Aftermath (SAMHSA)
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/EmergencyServices/stress.asp

- A Guide to Managing Stress in Crisis Response Professions (SAMHSA)
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA-4113/default.asp


Responder Data Resources

* Water-related Disease Contaminants(CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/disease/type.html

* Hazardous Substance Data Bank(NLM)
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB

* Health Effects Notebook for Hazardous Air Pollutants(EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/hapindex.html

* Integrated Risk Information System [Environmental contaminants exposure](EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/ncea/iris/search_keyword.htm

* WISER – Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders(NLM)
http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/


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Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Haiti