PubMed · 13775571
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C E TAYLOR, M E WEGMAN. 1961. Teaching through disasters.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13775571/
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On November 19, 2004, the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) received a report that a University of Hawaii professor aged 56 years had been hospitalized with suspected leptospirosis after cleaning his flooded laboratory. On October 31, heavy rains had caused an adjacent stream to overflow its banks and flood the campus. Persons exposed to fresh water or mud contaminated by the urine of animals infected with the spirochete Leptospira interrogans can have systemic illness if the leptospires enter the body through broken skin or mucous membranes. This report describes the subsequent investigation by HDOH, assisted by CDC, which highlights the importance of maintaining clinical suspicion for leptospirosis after flooding in areas where the illness is endemic, even in well-developed urban settings.
Anomalies have been observed in the radon content of thermal spring water at the Italian-Slovenian border. To distinguish the anomalies caused by environmental parameters (air and water temperature, barometric and hydrostatic pressure, rainfall) from those ascribed solely to earthquakes with M(L) from 1.2 to 2.5 and epicentres, R(E), within 2R(D) (R(D)--Dobrovolsky's radius), two approaches have been used: (i) correlation between time gradients of radon concentration and hydrostatic pressure, and (ii) regression trees within machine learning programs. The regression trees approach has been improved by introducing additional environmental parameters and prolonging the measuring period.