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Volume 356:196-197 January 11, 2007 Number 2
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Injuries after a Typhoon in China

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by Gong, Z.
To the Editor: On August 12, 2004, a huge typhoon named Rananim struck the east coast of China. The Chinese Field Epidemiology Training Program investigated to ascertain the rate of and risk factors for typhoon-related injuries in an affected coastal city.

We defined an injury case as any case involving hospitalization of a patient between August 12 and 14, 2004, for any of 10 types of typhoon-related injury,1 and death as any death from such an injury occurring between August 12 and 18, 2004. We investigated all hospitalized patients and telephoned discharged patients and surrogates for those who had died. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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