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Editorial Comments—Disaster Response to the Release of Biohazardous Agents: Instrument Development and Evaluation of a Firefighters' Exercise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Kelly R. Klein*
Affiliation:
Associate Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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