TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Team Rubicon medical response to Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas JO - Disaster medicine and public health preparedness A1 - Bouland, Andrew J. A1 - Selzer, Jordan A1 - Yogman, Madi A1 - Callaway, David W. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - On September 1, 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall as a category 5 hurricane on Great Abaco Island, Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian matched the "Labor Day" hurricane of 1935 as the strongest recorded Atlantic hurricane to make landfall with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles/h.1 At the request of the Government of the Bahamas, Team Rubicon activated a World Health Organization Type 1 Mobile Emergency Medical Team and responded to Great Abaco Island. The team provided medical care and reconnaissance of medical clinics on the island and surrounding cays….

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LA - en SN - 1935-7893 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2019.107 ID - ref1 ER -