As Gaffney notes, by wiping out a country's ability to support itself, an EMP attack would cause mass starvation and disease.
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One industry expert said the mass deaths indicated a disease outbreak, possibly on a single farm.
Their center's groundbreaking in 1999 began by dedicating a memorial to the "Great Hunger, " or the mid-19th century potato famine that led to death, disease and mass emigration, Moriarty said.
While polio has been eliminated in much of the world, largely through mass immunization campaigns, the disease remains endemic in three countries: Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
The government remains adamant that the surest way to eradicate the disease is the mass slaughter of infected animals within 24 hours and livestock on neighbouring land within 48 hours.
The loss in weight and body mass is driven by a metabolic disease manifested by increased energy consumption.
H5 virus which is responsible for avian flu, a disease that has forced a mass slaughter of poultry in many countries and could, if it mutates, cause a deadly epidemic among humans.
The countries represented at the summit pledged a co-ordinated fight against the disease and issued a declaration that mass culling of infected poultry flocks was the best way to control its spread.
"The investigators examined changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and then its association with change in body fatness or BMI (body mass index), and subsequent deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, " says Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington and chair of the American Heart Assocation's Nutrition Committee, who was not involved in the study.
Not surprisingly, the researchers found a clear relationship between the adolescents' body mass index and their likelihood of having risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Such a rise would probably lead to fast-melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, drought, disease and collapsing agriculture in poor countries, and mass migration.
In many remote villages, volunteers dug bodies from the wreckage and buried them in mass graves without proper religious ceremonies, fearing the spread of disease in the summer heat.
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Most were interred in mass graves or doused with petrol and burned because of the fear of disease spreading in the tropical heat.
Only when Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists sent a suspect sample to the mass spectrometer did they discover the new variety of swine flu, according to an article describing the techniques in Science magazine.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also maintains an excellent collection of resources on mass casualty event preparedness and response.
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