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The author Sonja D. Schmid is an assistant progessor in STS at Virgina Tech. her areas of expertise include the history and set-up of previous Soviet Union nuclear powerplants and those in Eastern Europe. She also studies te way interational energy polices, the choice of techology and application affect each other. Her experience comes from studying the Soviet Union nuclear polices and interviewing those who had previous been involved in nuclear activites in Soviet Union nuclear industry.

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The main narrative of the film “In the Shadow of Ebola” is to show the impact from the top to bottom of the disease and the response to that disease. This includes international decisions affecting the nation of Liberia, the national government’s actions affecting the local communities and families there. Disease awareness and infrastructure are the main focus.

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1) “It has been six months, and nobody knows who is responsible for what. It is a disgrace.”

2) “Six months after the World Trade Center collapse, the greatest structural disaster in modern history, people were still seeking to answer the question: why exactly had the Towers collapsed?”

3) “With the exception of federal oversight, Iroquois set the tone for investigation of modern disaster from the Baltimore Conflagration (1904) to the World Trade Center collapse.”

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Users enter basic information, such as their name, age, area (where they live). Their biggest concern regarding their mental health and how they heard about their app, past mental history is also added as well as payment information if required.

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Emergency response is mentioned in the short and long term, in terms of placing infrastructure to direct and prevent diease. The authors stressed that dealing with epidemics as they happen is important to prevent further spread of diease. While long term repsonses in the past -clinics and medications- were placed, emergency response- going there and fixing the problem was stressed.

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Emergency response is addressed in the article through actions taken by health organizations in threat of an epidemic, national boards use emergency response as a way of protecting  their country  from disease, even though this is most effective through research and prevention. The idea of emergency response is global health security- in keeping the US healthy from epidemics in the past; we were not prepared for AIDS or swine flu.