The tsunami that struck 11 countries in South Asia on the morningof December 26, 2004, resulted in a natural disaster of apocalypticproportions. The sheer scope and severity of destruction haveprompted extraordinary international attention and support forsurvivors on the coastal rims and the islands in the Bay ofBengal and the Indian Ocean. The devastation wrought by thetsunami was catastrophic — more than 150,000 people dead,tens of thousands of people missing, thousands of miles of destroyedcoastline, and loss of livelihood for millions of distraughtsurvivors.
Drs. VanRooyen and Leaning are physicians in the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health — both in Boston.
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