Category: New York City

Preparing for the Worst-case Scenario

"ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND - SEPTEMBER 5, 2010: Demonstration of handling of car crash victim by medics at the annual World Harbor Days in Rotterdam, Holland on September 5"

Setting the Stage Imagine this: Explosions across New York City target elementary schools. Hundreds of severely injured and traumatized children, teachers, and parents flood hospital emergency departments in the five boroughs. Municipal emergency medical services (EMS) are rushing to respond. Fortunately this scenario wasn’t really happening – it was part of an exercise conducted on Read More >

September 12, 2017 by Celia Quinn, MD, MPH, CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer assigned to NYC Department of Health and Mental HygieneLeave a comment

preparedness, Preparedness Month, response

#NatlPrep, children, children’s preparedness, exercise, hospital preparedness, Hospital Preparedness Program, national preparedness month, New York City, NPM2017, Pediatric Exercise, PHEP, public health, STEADY

West Nile to Zika: How One Virus Helped New York City Prepare for Another

No one told the Aedes mosquito that New York is the city that never sleeps. The type of mosquito that can spread Zika virus (Zika) is most active during the early morning, day, and early evening. But New York is teeming with people during most of this time, meaning that our scientists had to find Read More >

September 12, 2016 by Mario Merlino, Assistant Commissioner, Pest Control and Veterinary Services, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene2 Comments

Disease Investigation, Disease Outbreak, preparedness, Preparedness Month, Vectorborne

Aedes albopictus, mosquito control, New York City, preparedness, west nile, Zika