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Published on:
15 Nov 2013
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Contributed to by Joe Crea
The devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines continues to mount. Winds that reached 195 mph brought unmitigated ruin, an untold number of deaths and displaced more than 600,000 people throughout the country. This beast of a storm has not only destroyed human lives but human health, too. Not just physically and emotionally, but socially; when natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy strike, they threaten and decimate entire social fabrics of many established communities.