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The WHO, a well respected organization, pushed for a similar framework of 'public health security'.

Legislation in the United States that supported a global model of health care in order to address pandemics and other hazards.

Growing issues with pathogenicity and mutability in diseases that makes it harder to deal with retroactively instead of proactively.

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The number of emergency workers lost during 9/11:

343 Fire Fighters - http://nyfd.com/9_11_wtc.html

60 Police Officers

8 EMTs and Paramedics - http://www.world-memorial.org/Tribute/EMS/medics.html

EMS Lesson's Learned from 9/11

http://www.jems.com/articles/2006/08/lessons-learned-911.html

Changes were made to the mutual aid system. Resources that had, in the event, run out or were needed sooner than they were used are now better stocked and available. Some new trainings were implemented.

More stories from 9/11 by EMS

http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/mck_report/ems_response.pdf

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-Due to recent terror attacks, there has been an insurgence in French xenophobia. Has this changed these policies? What is the current public opinion on the treatment of undocumented foreigner with illness?

-How do other countries manage ill undocumented foreigners? What is the international consensus in first world countries?

-What is the cut-off for illness in the cases discussed?