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Dr. Horvath Inventor Unlocking the Aging Clock

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What is The Epigenetic Aging Clock?

Epigenetic modifications refer to heritable changes, which play crucial biological roles independent of genetic changes. DNA methylation, one of the most studied epigenetic modifications, is now recognized as a reliable indicator of biological age and reflects diseases status. Dr. Steve Horvath’s epigenetic aging clock, the gold standard of aging clocks, was built from thousands of samples, and his work has been cited more than 600 times. The DNAge Epigenetic Aging Clock service is based on Steve Horvath’s aging clock and utilizes SWARM (Simplified Whole-panel Amplification Reaction Method) technology to analyze DNA methylation patterns of >500 loci and provide epigenetic age predictions in a high throughput manner.

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Judge’s Decisions Are Conspicuously Late

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He meticulously documented several of these acts and reported them to New York state and federal investigators. Dr. Hall’s reports and official documents were reviewed by US Senator Charles Schumer, New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler, and New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane along with Donna Shalala, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Civil Rights; shocked by these revelations, all were highly supportive of Dr. Hall and availed their resources. Mark Green, New York City Public Advocate supported Dr. Hall’s efforts along with the New York State Department of Health, with whom Dr. Hall filed charges against the hospital’s racist, grossly negligent and inhumane actions against black patients. In a landmark decision, Dr. Hall’s originally drafted complaint against the hospital and senior staff was affirmed by the New York State Department of Health – Public Health Council; the hospital and senior staff were found to have acted in a negligent and unethical way. Ironically, a Clinton appointed, black, federal judge, George Daniels, a present member of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who without reason or merit, patently refused to allow Dr. Hall’s case to be heard. This matter was illuminated by Dr. Hall and personally addressed by the former United States Attorney General and Chief Judge Michael Mukasey. With his heart dedicated to improving the health care industry, in December 2004, The New York Times had acknowledged Dr. Hall’s plight.

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The Kansas City Star Highlights Dr Hall’s Book

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Michael Hall approached women on the streets and called hundreds more to research his book. But he was always the perfect gentleman.

In fact, that’s what he wanted to talk to them about. Does a gentleman have a place in today’s society, he asked? How should a man treat a woman? Do you like a man to pick up the check and open doors for you?

Do you like a man who understands a woman sexually? “That was always yes, and most of the time they said they don’t know anyone like that,” says the Kansas City native, 34, single and a doctor, to boot. It didn’t surprise him that so many women said they didn’t know any gentlemen. That’s why he wrote The American Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Chivalry. Hall calls the slim paperback a manifesto, a call to arms for men to adopt the ways of the gentleman.”Trying to achieve chivalric ideals is something we just don’t talk about,” says Hall, a senior resident in community and family medicine at Truman Medical Center-Lakewood. “I think this idea of trying to assign gender-specific behaviors is something we’re not comfortable with.”

Such notions of chivalry and respect for women, however, don’t ring so old-fashioned in an age of female-demeaning song lyrics and teen pop idols who dress like prostitutes. Hall’s book joins others, like Wendy Shalit’s popular A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, that are sounding clarion calls for kinder, more genteel times. Former college history professor Terrence Moore, now principal of a charter school in Fort Collins, Colo., is also writing a book about modern chivalry, a topic that has perplexed many of his students over the years. In college history classes, Moore, 35, has launched discussions about the Middle Ages by asking students: Is chivalry dead?

“I would get responses to that question like no other,” he says. “And it really engages young women. They really have decided opinions. I would say that most of the women in the middle states and in the South definitely think that chivalry has died, that men don’t respect them anymore … that they act like uncultivated barbarians. “It’s a very hard thing for a woman these days to go out in public without getting approached, without getting gawked at, without getting leered at. Young women are very vocal about these things, and they basically want men to return to some idea of gentility.”

One guess. By Hall’s definition, a gentleman walks through the world in what Hall calls a “state of character,” observing the needs and concerns of people around him, giving of himself freely without expecting anything in return and always doing what he believes to be right. Sound like anyone you know? Hall didn’t interview women only. Many of the hundreds of men he talked to were “absolutely interested in this, and they don’t know where to turn.”

He wrote the book after seeing boorishness in the workplace. In the late 1990s Hall was finishing ophthalmology training at a New York medical center where, he says, he witnessed racial discrimination and medical negligence. He blew the whistle. He believes he did the gentlemanly thing by standing up for his principles and trying to right a wrong. Then he began paying attention to how other men around him were comporting themselves. What he saw worried him. He saw women trying to shrug into their coats in restaurants while no one offered assistance. He saw women entering buildings with armloads of bags and boxes, and no one opening the door for them. “It’s just not part of the American society,” Hall says. “We really go against the grain when it comes to formality and rules. We are impatient people.”

“I think it’s partially our social background. We don’t stress it. It’s not inherently important to the way we behave. It doesn’t make us richer, it doesn’t make the day go by faster, and it takes time.” Moore blames part of the fall of the American gentleman on the dismantling of the American family, the syndrome sociologists call “the fatherless America.”

“He was the natural trainer and caretaker of young manhood,” Moore says. Now when boys look to popular culture for their male role models, there are no John Waynes. But there is Eminem. Moore and others believe that growing gentlemen is really a job for the global community. The training should begin at home, but it is perpetuated, encouraged and supported at school, at church, in social groups and through civic activities. Maybe then men wouldn’t be as confused about all this gentleman stuff as they told Hall they were. Moore doesn’t blame feminism for the death of the gentleman. This isn’t a he-she discussion, he says.

“I really think if we were to return it to a gender-based respect for the sexes, it would appeal to the gallant and heroic in men.”

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944 Magazine Miami

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944 Magazine Miami

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The World Congress of Anti Aging Medcine (Monaco)

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Hall Longevity Clinic Will Be Representing Miami in Monaco!

Under the scientific supervision of the World Society of Interdisciplinary Anti-Aging Medicine (WOSIAM), the conference will feature a highly interactive, stimulating and multidisciplinary program and will provide the ideal forum to stimulate ideas, educate, share expertise, initiate intense discussions and extend networking opportunities.

Many distinguished physicians, medical experts and scientists have joined the faculty and will take part in this congress.

Every year, this highly awaited event attracts over 10 000 participants coming from more than 120 countries. Over 300 leading international companies, showcasing on the 5-floor exhibition area, will be there to let you discover their latest products, technologies and services.

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Dr. Hall Featured In Rolling Stone Magazine

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Coronavirus Is Here: What We Know So Far

How is it transmitted? Should you be wearing a mask? We asked infections disease experts our most pressing questions

Over the past few weeks we’ve been confronted with daily reports about the coronavirus, but a lot of the information out there is confusing or contradictory. To start with, it’s a coronavirus, not the coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a coronavirus is part of a large virus family, responsible for illnesses like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). The condition that is currently in the news is a novel coronavirus — meaning that it’s a new strain that hadn’t previously been identified in humans. The illness associated with it has been named COVID-19, which stands for “coronavirus disease 2019.”

Ever since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, concern — now bordering on panic — has disseminated along with misinformation and plenty of rumors. In order to separate fact from fiction, Rolling Stone spoke with several medical experts on this novel coronavirus. Here’s what we found out.

Do we know how it’s transmitted?

Based on what we know now, COVID-19 appears to be transmitted through small droplets of spit that become airborne when an infected person coughs, exhales or sneezes. “If you inhale these particles or touch them on surfaces and then touch your mouth or nose you could become infected,” Dr. Jennifer Haythe, an internist and a critical care cardiologist at Columbia University Center tells Rolling Stone. “This is similar to other common viruses like influenza.”

There are reports that the virus may also be transmitted through a fecal route, though Haythe says that this is not the major form of transmission. According to Dr. Michael Hall, a physician and CDC vaccine provider at Hall Longevity Clinic in Miami, Florida, when someone flushes stool, it becomes atomized, and the virus may be spreading from the toilet into the atmosphere in that way. New research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published on February 15th, found that people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 had the live virus in their stool samples, confirming this as a possible transmission route. Specifically, there is concern over fecal-oral transmission, which could happen if someone prepares food with hands that are contaminated — though of course that risk can be minimized with the frequent and thorough washing of hands, as health officials have recommended. There has been concern over possible COVID-19 transmission through pets — especially cats and dogs — there is no hard data to back this up.

At this point, the WHO is unsure of how long the virus can survive on surfaces, but assuming it operates like other coronaviruses, it’s thought to be able to live for anywhere from a few hours to several days. The length may vary depending on circumstances like the type of surface, the temperature and the humidity. This has caused some to worry that it’s unsafe to receive packages or products from places like China, with higher rates of COVID-19 infection. Though technically, this may be possible, the WHO says that the risk of contracting the virus this way is low, especially since the shipping time from China to the United States can take well over a week. Still, Hall — who has spoken with Miami postal workers about transmission risks — advises people to spray packages they’re unsure of with a disinfectant as an extra precaution. But for now, Haythe says that there have been no clear cases of someone getting sick from opening an infected package. And Dr. Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth in Colorado, says that the virus can’t survive in the conditions under which packages are generally transported. “The virus will either dry out or will die without the appropriate humidity and temperature it prefers,” she tells Rolling Stone.

Should I wear a face mask?

To wear a mask or not to wear a mask — that has been one of the most confusing questions associated with this COVID-19. For starters, not all masks are created equal. You can’t just throw on any random painting or sanding mask you find at Home Depot or CVS and expect to be protected. The CDC recommends N95 masks — meaning that they filter out at least 95 percent of tiny airborne particles.

However, both the CDC and WHO stipulate that for right now, the average person without respiratory symptoms does not need to wear these masks. And in order to work, the masks have to fit properly. “They require a fit test to ensure there is no air leakage, and one size does not necessarily fit all,” Barron says. “Wearing this type of mask also is not comfortable for long periods of time.”

In fact, the WHO advises “rational use of medical masks” to avoid taking necessary supplies from people in the healthcare industry — especially because there is already a worldwide shortage. According to Haythe, N95 masks are currently reserved for quarantined and/or infected individuals, as well as people in the medical profession potentially exposed to the virus.

“Unless you are a healthcare worker taking care of patients, or are taking care of someone with the disease, wearing an N95 mask is not helpful,” Dr. Terry Simpson, a physician and molecular virology expert, tells Rolling Stone. “If you have a cold or flu or COVID-19, wearing a mask is polite.”

What’s going on with testing?

While there is a test for COVID-19, it has proven to be difficult to get. For example, doctors in California suspected that a woman was infected with the virus, so they requested diagnostic testing from the CDC. But because she failed to meet their strict criteria — meaning she hadn’t traveled to China or come in contact with someone who was infected — the organization refused to provide the test. She did eventually get tested, and on Wednesday it was announced that she did, in fact, have COVID-19, becoming the first case of infection without known contact. On Thursday, CDC officials said they were unaware of the California doctors’ request, and broadened the testing criteria to cover more Americans. Still, under the updated guidelines, a person has to be extremely ill before testing can take place.

At this point, only the CDC has the capability to conduct COVID-19 diagnostic testing. In addition, many of the test kits the organization distributed to state health departments did not work properly. As of today, though, the CDC has reportedly fixed the issue, and now 40 labs across the U.S. are authorized to use the new tests. In addition, New York state has begun developing its own diagnostic test.

According to Simpson, some companies are currently trying to develop rapid-detection kits, but for right now, only the CDC has them. “We want to make testing kits readily available that have a good sensitivity and specificity for the virus. This, along with working to get a vaccine and find antiviral medications that work, are a part of rapid research keeping many labs working late hours,” he explains.

The process is the same procedure as for testing for the flu virus — a swab from the nose or throat, Barron explains. The specimen is then sent to a lab, which will determine whether the virus is present. At this point, there isn’t a blood test for COVID-19. “We believe that the virus is primarily in your respiratory system — the nose, throat, [and] lungs — and we don’t have any evidence that it gets into the bloodstream at this time,” Barron adds.

Are men more likely to die from COVID-19?

Recent data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that older men are more susceptible to COVID-19 than women. Though men and women appear to be getting infected at similar rates, the death rate for men was 2.8 percent, compared with 1.7 percent for women. However, Barron points out that the data from China may be skewed because it “does not account for other co-morbidities and for rates of smoking that are reportedly higher in men in China than women.” In addition, a study published in The Lancet on January 30th, 2020 examining the health characteristics found that those dying from COVID-19 were older men with a long history of smoking, and therefore had more lung damage than the average person. Barron says that more data is still needed to better understand the impact of the virus based on sex. It’s also worth noting that a new study found that at the time of publication, there were no COVID-19 deaths in children under the age of 10.

Is there anything that can be done to prevent infection?

Like most viruses or communicable illnesses, the best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is to avoid people who are infected and wash your hands frequently, and thoroughly with antiseptic soap. “Wash after going to the bathroom. Wash when you enter the house, when you get to work, and after being in public areas,” Simpson says. If you’re unable to wash your hands with soap and water, an alcohol-based sanitizer will suffice. And be aware of touching your face — especially your hands, nose and mouth — while in public or after touching a potentially contaminated surface. Speaking of which, using disinfectant wipes on frequently touched surfaces like your cell phone, door knobs, table tops, remote controls and light switches can also help stop the spread of the virus.

Beyond that, Barron says that staying hydrated is important, especially in winter months when the cold weather is often drying. “Additionally, good nutritional food including fruits and vegetables are always good for your body and for your immune system, which is how we fight off infections,” she explains.

If you’re experiencing any type of respiratory symptoms — like congestion, a runny nose, sore throat, or cough — isolate as much as possible. Also, remember to cough and sneeze into your elbow or a tissue, especially in public. “If you have symptoms that concern you, or you worry you may have been exposed or traveled to an area with cases, contact your healthcare provider,” Haythe says. If you think you could be infected, call a doctor and be clear that you think you could be infected, and make sure they’re equipped to handle it — don’t just show up.

Finally, being up-to-date and informed about the latest COVID-19 developments is also important. “I think that at the current time it is crucial to remember that this is an evolving story and there is more that we don’t know than we do know,” Haythe says. “Doctors and scientists are learning more about COVID-19 every day. Listen to verified sources like the CDC when acquiring information and limit exposure to websites and social media accounts propagating false information.”

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Is the COVID mRNA Vaccine Duo Safe?

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We really don’t have enough data to say the risk outweighs the benefits.

First, President Trump in March of 2020 brought the US Department of Defense into direct collaboration with U.S. health departments with respect to vaccine distribution, Operation Warp Speed (Bonsell, 2021), a typical vaccines takes 12.5 years to go from theory to practice. Second, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) collaborated with the biotechnology company Moderna in bringing an unprecedented type of vaccine against infectious disease to market, one utilizing a technology based on messenger RNA (mRNA) (National Institutes of Health, 2020).The confluence of these unprecedented events has rapidly brought to public awareness the promise and potential of mRNA vaccines as a new weapon against infectious diseases into the future. At the same time, events without precedent are, by definition, without a history and context against which to fully assess risks, hoped-for benefits, safety, and long-term viability as a positive contribution to public health.

Without precedent, the FDA is continuing its efforts to reduce the exposure of COVID to the U.S. population and currently is not recommending the vaccines to infants, children, and pregnant women. The FDA is in discussions with manufacturers of COVID mRNA vaccines, Moderna and Pfizer regarding their capacity by hundreds of millions of doses to further increase the supply of the formulations for the U.S. and other countries. Of note, all vaccines for the U.S., including for adults, are now available only as thimerosal-free containing formulations. That means no ethylmercury. Yet, the other ingredients are very new and the nano lipid carrier vehicle for the mRNA is made from a propylene glycol. This can cause an immune reaction in some creating a rash.

Others have brought up important additional questions regarding COVID-19 vaccine safety with questions with direct relevance to the mRNA vaccines. For example, Haidere, et. al. (2021) identify four “critical questions” related to unrealistic development of these vaccines,

•Will mRNA Vaccines Stimulate Longterm Immune Response?

•Will mRNA Vaccines Provide Sustainable Immune Endurance Without Harm?

•How Will SARS-CoV-2 Mutate Regarding Use of mRNA Vaccines?

•Are We Prepared for Vaccine Blowback or Unintended Side-effects?

Lack of standard and extended preclinical and clinical trials of the two implemented mRNA vaccines leaves each of these questions to be answered over time. It is now only through observation of pertinent physiological and epidemiological data generated by widescale delivery of the vaccines to the general public that these questions will be resolved. We are seeing some of those questions being answered in the negative. And this is only possible if there is free access to unbiased reporting of outcomes –something that seems unlikely given the widespread censorship of vaccine-related information because of the perceived need to declare success.

Time will tell, but we have to be honest as physicians and still promote science without harm.

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The London Guardian

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The London Guardian

Dr. Michael Hall, a plastic surgeon in Miami Beach, said that an age of excess in the industry had come to an end, mirroring wider society. “When it comes to plastic surgery, people are now using more common sense. They don’t want radical procedures,” he said.

But while full-on surgical operations might be falling, the number of non-surgical cosmetic procedures is steady or rising. Many plastic surgeons say there has merely been a shift in taste and treatment. Non-surgical operations, such as Botox, lip injections or lasering, are cheaper and becoming more effective. “Women are looking for non-invasive procedures,” said Hall.

Hall put it another way, pointing out that some human emotions and desires are both recession-proof and fashion-proof: “There is no lack of vanity. There is just a little more hesitation.”

The London Guardian

“Miami has always been a place where people have run to reinvent themselves. It is a place of escape,” explains Dr Michael Hall, who has turned the city’s desire for reinvention into a very lucrative business. Hall runs the Hall Longevity Clinic, specialising in laser treatments, Botox and myriad other ways that the denizens of Miami can fight off the march of time.

“I call it the Miami smile,” he says of people living here. “You get the bright light, the bikinis and the good-looking people in the streets. It is sexy.” Hall sits in his doctor’s surgery wearing a pair of flip-flops and his shirt split open to the navel to reveal a muscular chest. He never opens his surgery before 11am and he spends evenings at the bars of top Miami Beach hotels, mingling with celebrities. A bottle of champagne is chilled in his medicine fridge alongside vials of growth hormone.

The world Hall services is one of brazen excess in a city that has become one of the top playgrounds in the world for the ultra-rich. It is a place of super yachts, fast cars and excessive parties, all fuelled by either Saudi petro-dollars or South American narco-dollars. “I don’t really know what ‘over the top’ means any more. It is Disneyland for the rich,” Hall says.

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The New Zealand Herald

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The New Zealand Herald

They lost their homes and loved ones, but Sri Lankans affected by the Boxing Day tsunami have not given up hope of rebuilding their lives. Kaitaia nurses Terina Gladding and Raina Kitchen have spent 10 days working in relief camps around Batticaloa, on Sri Lanka’s east coast, and came away bowled over by the Sri Lankans’ positive attitude. “They’re so resilient. They want to get on with it and there’s a lot of hope,” Mrs Gladding said.

“They have been through a civil war and this is one more thing for them to deal with.” More than 290,000 people died around the Indian Ocean when a tsunami struck on December 26. Sri Lanka was one of the worst-hit areas, prompting the nurses to want to help out. “They’re beautiful people – they have gone through heaps,” Mrs Kitchen said. Mrs Gladding and Mrs Kitchen are nurses for Kaitaia Maori health provider Te Hauora o Te Hiku o Te Ika.

Thanks to their fellow healthworker, Dr Michael Hall, arranging to work at relief camps in Sri Lanka, the experienced nurses grabbed at the chance to travel to the ravaged east coast. Fellow Te Hauora o Te Hiku o Te Ika workers Roger Barton and Monique Kaupa also travelled to Sri Lanka to help out. All four workers paid for their expenses.

Mrs Gladding and Mrs Kitchen – the mother of New Zealand squash champion Shelley Kitchen – spent about $2000 each on the trip. The pair arrived in Sri Lanka on January 12 to see “a lot of devastation” – flattened homes, debris, washed-out roads and ravaged pastures everywhere. Their work consisted of travelling about six hours a day – in stifling 30degC-plus heat – to make-shift camps around Batticaloa, helping patients with wounds such as severe bruises and chest infections. Some of the injured had walked kilometres to receive medical help.

Many of the injured received their wounds when the tsunami threw them against buildings, the nurses said. A number of the relief camps had rudimentary facilities such as basic tents for injured people to sleep in. Some of the relief camps were in separatist Tamil Tiger country, where the rebels carried guns around in a “tense” atmosphere.

The New Zealand Herald

Three Far North Health workers have given up their holidays to help tsunami relief efforts in Sri Lanka. The trio, from Kaitaia Maori health provider Te Hauora o Te Hiku o Te Ika, were taking leave without pay and paid their own way to help provide medical care to survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami that devastated large parts of Asia and killed more than 156,000 people.

Child health nurse Raina Kitchen and mental health nurse Te Rina Gladding flew out from Auckland on Tuesday for Sri Lanka and will be joined by Te Hiku’s clinical manager Roger Barton at the end of the week.

They will join fellow Te Hiku worker, doctor Michael Hall, who left for Sri Lanka on January 2. Mr Barton said the four were moved by the tsunami disaster and felt compelled to do something. They will work at Batticaloa, on Sri Lanka’s east coast, where the tsunami killed 20,000 people and made 250,000 homeless. “When we got the news (on Boxing Day), we were sitting down discussing it and said we don’t just want to send money – we wanted to do something more but wondered what,” he said.

When Mr Barton found out that the big aid agencies were not wanting volunteers to go to the areas, he contacted Auckland Hospital, hoping that some doctors and nurses there may have the same idea. From there, he was put him in touch with Middlemore Hospital’s head of vascular surgery, Peter Vann, a native Sri Lankan who was about to leave for Sri Lanka himself to help the relief effort.

Dr Hall teamed up with Mr Vann when he arrived in Sri Lanka last week and the two have established a relief operations base in a church at Batticaloa. The trip, which will be far from a holiday, is costing each of them several thousand dollars and Mr Barton said any financial help or sponsorship from the public or companies would be greatly appreciated. “We want to try to get a four-wheel-drive to help us get around there as they have nothing.

Also we want to get a large water storage tank to keep a good supply of clean water, because they have nothing like that there,” he said “It’s been quite difficult (raising the money to make the trip) but we are all determined and want to help.”
Mr Barton said several other Far North nurses were keen to follow them out to Sri Lanka, but could be prevented because of a lack of funds.

He is realistic about what to expect when he gets to Sri Lanka, having been kept up to date on the devastation by Dr Hall. “He said that on each incoming tide, more bodies are brought in and the stench is pretty bad. Also there are still villages that have not been reached yet so there are some pretty terrible things to come,” Mr Barton said. “We know we are likely to come across some pretty horrific things, but we are prepared for it.”

One of the biggest problems Dr Hall had reported was a lack of co-ordination of relief efforts, which all four hoped to improve.

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