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Epidemic

Affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time. Non-pandemic disease attacking many individuals in a same community during short terms (days, weeks, months maximum), such as cholera, typhoid, bubonic plague, etc. source: GLIDE

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Partnership forged to save lives in face of climate change and its humanitarian impacts

10 December 2007

Red Cross Red Crescent and IRI partnership set to address urgent "need to incorporate climate information into disaster-risk reduction and decision making"...


 
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
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