
The Power of Mobile Phones During an Emergency
In the event of an emergency, a functioning mobile phone could easily be the tool which saves your life. Whether the emergency is local, regional, national, or global it is important to remain conscious of our dependence More...

What’s All The Rave About Doomsday Anyway?
A report in United We Serve states that a prepping professional survey reveals that not many people are all prepped up for disasters as they ought to be. Forty percent of the participants in the survey admitted More...

WHO committee: Polio spread an ‘extraordinary event’ and a public health risk to other States
World Health Organization Director, Dr. Margaret Chan, upon the advice from an Emergency Committee of independent experts, declared recent international spread of wild poliovirus a “public health emergency of More...

MERS does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC): Emergency committee
In a follow-up to a report July 6, the second meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations met today and to determine whether the Middle East More...