Deaths Related to Hurricane Irma - Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, September 4-October 10, 2017

CDC ' s Emergency Operations Center collaborated with state health departments in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina to collect and analyze Hurricane Irma-related mortality data to understand the main circumstances of death. The most common circumstance-of-death categories were exacerbation of existing medical conditions and power outage. Further analysis revealed two unique subcategories of heat-related and oxygen-dependent deaths in which power outage contributed to exacerbation of an existing medical condition.
Source: PHPartners.org - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news