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Around 1 in 4 people affected by a wind- or water-based environmental disaster develops a diagnosable mental disorder. Three months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory is still struggling to recover. As the island works to restore its infrastructure, disaster and mental health experts show growing concerns over a burgeoning mental ...
May. 25, 2015
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In a 1990 paper on "The Anthropology of Infectious Disease," Marcia Inhorn and Peter Brown estimated that infectious diseases "have likely claimed more lives than all wars, noninfectious diseases, and natural disasters put together." Infectious diseases are our oldest, deadliest foe. ...
Oct. 21, 2022