ContextDisasters expose unselected populations to traumatic events and can be used to
study the mental health effects. The Oklahoma City, Okla, bombing is particularly significant …

Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and
dissemination of data on health-related events for use in public health action to reduce …

How best to put evidence into effective practice to achieve an intended reduction in
morbidity, mortality or disability has long been an issue of concern in research on injury field …

Objective.—To provide an epidemiologic description of physical injuries and fatalities
resulting from the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in …

Background The majority of severe and fatal burn injuries result from residential fires. We
studied the effectiveness of a smoke-alarm–giveaway program in the prevention of burn …

When a terrorist bomb explodes in an urban area, it produces devastating effects, including
structural and nonstructural damage to buildings, injuries, and deaths. Numerous injuries in …

During the evening hours of 3 May 1999, 58 tornadoes occurred in Oklahoma. One tornado
reached F5 intensity and left a widespread path of death, injury, and destruction in and …

Abstract Background Enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens type A is the third leading
cause of foodborne disease in the United States, resulting annually in an estimated 250,000 …

This is a descriptive study of the Emergency Medical Services response to a bombing of a
United States Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on 19 April 1995. The explosion …

The authors compared the effect of the 3 May 1999 F5 and 8 May 2003 F3 tornadoes on the
community of Moore, Oklahoma, by canvassing damaged areas after both tornadoes and …