An examination of health data following two major earthquakes in Russia

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Thus the hazards to health observed from these two earthquakes can be summarised as follows: (a) massive immediate damage, the main victims being women and children; (b) the seriously injured suffer mainly from fractures (17%), head injuries (15-30%) and soft tissue conusions with haemhorrage; (c) a change in the physical features of a country which unfavourably affect the environment; (d) some time after the earthquake the appearance of communicable disease; (e) increases in cases of cardiovascular disease neuroses and psychoses.

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