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DRM Fact Sheet Communicable Diseases PDF
DRM Fact Sheet Communicable Diseases PDF
DRM Fact Sheet Communicable Diseases PDF
Disaster Risk Management for Health Fact Sheets Global Platform - May 2011
Communicable diseases can cause epidemics and Leptospirosis is associated with flooding and the in-
pandemics which have the potential to overwhelm the creased proximity of rats to humans.
capacity of communities; hence, they are also consid-
ered disasters.
During the last century 4 influenza pandemics have
occurred resulting in excess of 50 million deaths.5
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