Health Risks Associated with 9/11 and the WTC (World Trade Center) Disaster: Lessons Learned

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 03/01/2017 The goal of this course is to explain the environmental hazards associated with the 9/11 attacks, and provide information about the World Trade Center Health Program. It identifies immediate, short- and long-term health risks posed by exposure to disaster and/or terrorist attacks to responders and survivors, and comorbidities most common in survivors and responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, sites. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - September 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news