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Committee
Aims
Background
Further Information
Report
Meetings

Committee
Acting Chairperson (contact person)	Vladimir Krèméry University of Health and Social Sciences Palackého 1 81101 Bratislava Slovakia E-mail: vladimir.krcmery@szu.sk
Committee Members	M. Akova, J. Benca A. Shahum Z. Tarekova M. Bartkovjak P. Kisac E. Kalavsky

Aim of the Working Group

• Investigate ID (surveillance), antibiotic practises and resistance development in areas of natural disasters, catastrophes and conflicts
• Summarize results of data on ID, etiology and ATB resistance from affected areas, respond with control measures
• Educate doctors, nurses, MPH`s to prepare on epidemics in areas of disasters

Background
There is very little data and no prospective research possible in the field of disaster medicine, including infectious diseases.
“Unpredictability” is an inherent element of a disaster situation.
After World War II the illusion of world peace disappeared 5 years later with the Korean War when, for first time, biological weapons were officially used on insects and rats infected with bubonic plague. Thus, both anthropogenic and natural disasters belong to everyday life. Medical conditions related to these unexpected events are different:

a. Affects masses of patients (population)
b. Appear unexpectedly
c. Public and health sector is unprepared

Medical consequences of disasters are i) immediate, ii) consequential or iii) late and may be apparent or latent (1,2). Infectious diseases belong to ii) and iii).

Further Information
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Report
Click here to view a report of the meeting of the ISC Working Group on Infections in Catastrophic Areas (ICA) held on 31st March 2007 in Munich, Germany.

Meetings
The ISC Working Group on Infections in Catastrophic Areas has (co-)organized the following meetings and symposia:

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ISC Future Meetings
ISC Past Meetings

Last edition: juillet 25, 2007