The lack of clean water or functioning hospitals could spark a public health emergency.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino had declared a public health emergency in the city Wednesday because of the flu.
At least five burroughs in New York City have declared a public health emergency within the last 24 hours.
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The governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, has declared a public health emergency because of the severity of this year's influenza season.
As I mentioned, on Sunday we declared a public health emergency in order to hurry the resources getting to different parts of the country.
The United States declared a public health emergency April 26.
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Boston mayor Thomas Menino declared a public health emergency on Friday after 700 confirmed cases of the flu since October 1st, ten times the amount of flu cases reported in all of 2011.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has declared a public health emergency as a precautionary tool to ensure that we have the resources we need at our disposal to respond quickly and effectively.
In Massachusetts, one of the 29 states that the CDC has identified as having high activity of influenza-like illness, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino declared a public health emergency in the city Wednesday because of the flu.
The World Health Organization calls the situation a "public health emergency of international concern, " and the United States has declared a "public health emergency, " likened by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to preparations for a potential hurricane.
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You can tell the flu season is in full swing when state and city governments declare a public health emergency, the evening TV news is filed with stories about pharmacies running low on vaccines and colleagues at work suddenly disappear for a few days.
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Or, will the popular program succumb to pressure from strident voices who insist that obesity is a public health emergency that can only be solved by expanding the role of government, limiting consumer choice, and demanding that regulators work against, rather than with, the food industry.
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"We're in a public-health emergency for much of the winter, " said Brian Moench, a 62-year-old anesthesiologist and president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, which delivered the petition demanding action at the Utah Capitol.
Certain exceptions were being made for public-health workers, emergency vehicles, media and critical services.
As part of the CRI, the CDC and state public health personnel assess local emergency-management plans, protocols and capabilities for 72 Metropolitan Statistical Areas and four non-MSA large cities.
The most dangerous substances - such as those that could cause cancer - will be banned, with member states only allowed to make exceptions in strict circumstances, such as in an emergency public health crisis.
In California during the 1990s, Latinos read the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Pete Wilson, a Republican governor, as racist and were outraged when voters passed a ballot measure (later ruled unconstitutional) to bar undocumented immigrants from non-emergency public health care, welfare and education.
It would also ensure all Americans with private or public health insurance have access to emergency care, medical specialists and clinical drug trials.
D. in public health from Johns Hopkins, and is trained in emergency medicine, anesthesiology, and critical-care medicine.
The take-home message is that when financial interests have an effect on the availability of specific medications to treat emergency medical conditions, the public is at risk and our health and safety are compromised.
On May 6th, just a few days ago, President Obama declared emergency declarations for Louisiana, which allows for emergency measures to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the designated areas.
Coalition members include faith leaders, the chief of the Newtown police department, public and private school principals, counselors, health care professionals including a school nurse and emergency room doctor, high school students and several other community members.
"It has been a major public-health undertaking to make sure the devices are available, " says Raina Merchant, an emergency-medicine doctor at Penn who is spearheading the project.
Health professionals, carers, pregnant women and members of voluntary organisations who provide emergency first aid at public events should also receive the vaccine.
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Speaking for the first time in public, Mr Walker told the health select committee staff had been forced to cancel 700 operations when hospitals were full of emergency cases in 2009.
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