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Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of genocidal weapons.

For certain countries the availability of the technology and know-how has turned the nuclear weapons option, as well as the possession of chemical and bacteriological weapons, into a threatened reality of the present. Once a country embarks on a 'solution' such as this to its security problems, the countries in conflict with it are obliged to follow suit, thus accelerating the process of development and proliferation of similar weapons. Fear stimulates the creation of a spiral of false security that will inevitably result, if left to its 'natural' forces, in world-wide destruction. Nuclear war is examined here from an epidemiological viewpoint as a disease with two corresponding different possibilities: (a) the natural history of the disease, and (b) modifications produced by primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Medical responsibility has no alternative but to work for the prevention of the incurable consequences of nuclear war.

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PubMed1988

Genocide and public health: German doctors and Polish Jews, 1939-41.

German doctors in the General Government played an important role in providing the medical rationalization for ghettoization and mass murder. Their desire to prevent the spread of disease to Germans led them to favour providing adequate health care for Poles. The same self-interest engendered their persistent advocacy of ghettoization for Jews, who were believed to be natural carriers of spotted fever. When ghetto conditions created a self-fulfilling prophecy of wide-spread disease, the doctors advocated tighter sealing of the ghettos. By late 1941, this self-induced threat to public health made the doctors receptive to a mass murder solution.

Communicable Diseases↗