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Myths, the Ultimate Survivors in Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Claude De Ville de Goyet*
Affiliation:
Consultant, Retired Director of the Emergency Preparedness Program of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization
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Abstract

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Type
Editorial Review
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2007

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