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• Emergency Care Center - Tools for medical self care in a large scale natural disaster, infectious disease or terrorist incident. Humanitarian University Consortium.

27 December 2004: Stephen Apatow gathers data accurate projections regarding the death toll/damage assessment in southern Asian coastlines (in nine countries) impacted by the tsunami. Accurate statistics were crucial to background discussions with leaders in UN member countries (HRI: International Disaster Information Network) to prompt an appropriate international relief effort in this region of the globe. The scale of this disaster is Asia, just touches the surface regarding the complexity of issues facing geographic areas with large impoverished populations, with military conflicts where the governments do not maintain control of the area impacted by the disaster.  Current discussions include the inability for relief workers and aid organizations to reach many areas, prompting the possible need for peace keeping troops supported by NATO.

• Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWS): A global multi-Hazard watch service to support humanitarian preparedness. HEWSweb has been conceived as the first global one-stop shop for early warning information, to facilitate access to the latest early warnings by bringing together and rationalizing under one platform the vast amount of information now available on the Internet from multiple specialized institutions. 

• Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism: Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council - Prepublication Copy of Report. 
• Mental Health: Coping with a National Tragedy, Chemical or Biological Terrorism
• National Terrorism Preparedness Training: St. Petersburg College
• State Department: Terrorism: Crisis Awareness & Preparedness

• Cyberpreparedness Information Resource

• Biodefense Reference Library (Humanitarian Resource Institute):  A collaborative initiative of international medical, veterinary and scientific experts to share information and enhance academic discussion of issues associated with preparedness,  response, mitigation and policy.  See also: Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Center
• Global Emerging Infections System: Surveillance, Response, Training and Capacity Building and Systems Research, Development and Integration.

Looking Back at Bhopal: Just after midnight on December 3, 1984, a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India accidentally released approximately 40 metric tons of methyl isocyanate into the atmosphere. The incident was a catastrophe for Bhopal with an estimated 2000 casualties, 100,000 injuries, and significant damage to livestock and crops. The long-term health effects from such an incident are difficult to evaluate; the International Medical Commission on Bhopal estimated that as of 1994 upwards of 50,000 people remained partially or totally disabled....

• Preparedness Guide for Chemical Emergencies: National Disaster Education Coalition
• U.S. Chemical Safety and  Hazard Investigation Board
• ADSTR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

• FEMA Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program
• FEMA: Fact Sheet Nuclear Power Plant Emergency

• Weather Information Network (WIN)  Includes Global Satellite Links, International Weather Information and access to U.S. Community & Family Preparedness Resources.