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Category Archives: Threats
Keeping Contagion a Work of Fiction: 5 Ways to Prevent Spreading Illness in Your Office
The number one movie at the box office last weekend was Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion. The film portrays a dramatized account of a fictional lethal virus that originates in China and quickly becomes a pandemic. The fictional virus is spread, like [...]
Posted in Pandemics, Threats
Tagged CDC, Contagion, disease, flu, flu season, infection, influenza, prevention, public health, Soderbergh, Vaccine
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E. coli Outbreak Alert
E. coli Outbreak Alert
A new mutated strain of E. coli is responsible for a large, deadly outbreak in Europe. The outbreak is centered in Germany, but cases are appearing around Europe in those who traveled to Germany. Since the outbreak [...]
Posted in Business Travel, Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged business travel, CDC, E. coli, Escherichia coli, Germany, outbreak, WHO
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Responding to a tsunami
A sheet of debris-strewn water rolling across the landscape, dotted with whole buildings in flames, is likely to be the terrible image that will be associated with the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan today. With [...]
Posted in Natural Disasters, Threats
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Business travelers and measles – know the risks
Public health concerns have been sparked over two unrelated reports of possible measles outbreaks last week in New Mexico and Boston, MA. Although endemic measles was eliminated from this country over a decade ago, there are still dozens of cases [...]
Don’t Be Left in the Dark: 11 Tips for Power Outages
Utility companies are not immune to the cold weather, as Texans soon discovered when they found themselves without power several times in the last couple of days. The rolling outages were conducted in an attempt to make up for the [...]
Protect Yourself Against Cold Weather
As bad winter weather persists, some may believe staying at home is enough to avoid most hazards that come with cold weather. Yet, in 2007, over 118,000 people were treated for injuries that occurred while trying to shovel or remove [...]
Posted in Threats, Winter Storm
Tagged frostbite, hypothermia, ice, snow, winter storm, winter weather
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Reacting to an Explosion
Suicide bombers have lashed out against civilians this week in Russia, Pakistan and most recently a foreigner-populated market in Afghanistan. The common thread behind these attacks is the type of location, which attracts heavy foot traffic in a place with [...]
The Basics of Building an Emergency Kit
According to a U.N. report, there were more than 370 natural disasters last year, affecting over 200 million people. This sobering statistic highlights the reality that disasters can happen anywhere, to anyone, often with little or no warning. In preparing [...]
Responding to an Active Shooter
Jared Loughner ended the lives of six people and wounded 14 others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, when he went on a shooting rampage last week. While it is nearly impossible to predict what you would do in a situation like [...]
Posted in Threats, Workplace Violence
Tagged active shooter, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner, shooting
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Whooping Cough, A Resurfacing Epidemic
Schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa are going to offer free vaccinations in an effort to slow down the infection of whooping cough, or pertussis, a bacterial infection of the respiratory system. According to the CDC, this year’s outbreak reports the [...]
Posted in Threats
Tagged bacterial infection, pertussis, respiratory infection, whooping cough
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