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Military Medical Assistance Following Natural Disasters: Refining the Rapid Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Timothy F. Haley  and
Robert A. De Lorenzo
Timothy F. Haley
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Investigations, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA
Robert A. De Lorenzo*
Affiliation:
Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
*
[email protected]
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 9 - 10
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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