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Editorial Comments—October 2005 Earthquake in Northern Pakistan: Pattern of Injuries in Victims Brought to the Emergency Relief Hospital, Doraha, Mansehra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Limor Aharonson-Daniel  and
Yaron Bar-Dayan
Limor Aharonson-Daniel
Affiliation:
PReparED Research Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Yaron Bar-Dayan*
Affiliation:
PReparED Research Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
*
bardayan@netvision.net.il
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Editorial Comments
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2009 , pp. 540 - 541
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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