title: Infectious diseases in disaster areas/catastrophes.
abstract: There is very little data and no prospective research possible in the field of catastrophic medicine (disaster medicine) including infectious diseases. This minireview tries to contribute to the pathogenesis and outcome of infectious diseases in areas after anthropogenic (war, genocide, terrorist attack, industrial disasters) and non anthropogenic (natural) catastrophes (earthquake, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcano eruptions). Therefore ISC received a proposal to create a working group on infectious diseases in areas after catastrophes, better to understand epidemiology, prevention and therapy of infectious diseases occurring in conjunction to various anthropogenic and non anthropogenic (natural) disasters.
authors.affiliation: St. Elisabeth University College of Health and Social Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benca
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kalavsky
authors.forename: Jozef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miklosko
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rudinsky
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taziarova
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: McKenzie
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods*; D004190:Disasters / Q000145:classification; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D023481:Terrorism; D014857:Warfare