Chapter 3 Post-disaster epidemic analysis and prevention-3
Key points for post-disaster epidemic prevention 4
Summary 6
Corpse and Disease 7
Overarching Issues: Population Migration 7
Risk Factors for Transmission of Infectious Diseases 8
Communicable diseases associated with natural disasters 9
Water-Related Infectious Diseases 9
Diseases associated with crowd density 11
Vector-borne infectious diseases 13
Other diseases associated with natural disasters 14
Diseases caused by supply interruptions in disasters 15
Discussion 15
Appendix 1: Principles of Corpse Disposal 18
Annex II: Priorities for epidemic prevention following natural disasters 19
About this manual 23