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BRUSSELS (AP) — After four days and nights of wrangling, exhausted European Union leaders finally clinched a deal on an unprecedented 1.8 trillion-euro ($2.1 trillion) budget and coronavirus recovery fund early Tuesday, after one of their longest summits ever.

MEDICALNEWS TODAY                                                            Jan. 6, 2015

Infectious diseases are one of the many health issues that worry the organizers of mass gatherings, such as the Hajj and the World Cup. Geographers' tools of the trade can help event organizers to better plan, monitor and respond timely to such eventualities. The ways in which geographers gather, analyze, and visualize information provide health officials with clearer pictures of the transport routes and environmental factors that may further the spread of viruses to and from the attendees' home countries.

In Chapter 3 of the new book Health, Science and Place: A New Model, geographer and biologist Dr. Amy Blatt explains how geographic information is used for disease surveillance at mass gatherings.
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/287577.php?tw

Read excerpt from the book,chapter 3.

by Dr. Amy Blatt
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-12003-4_3

It appears that there are food, water and energy shortages in Hoboken and Morristown.  The problem right now is that commercial companies and thir vehicles are having difficulties operating in the flooding areas like Hoboken.  In those areas, emotions are getting stretched, where facilities and residences have no electricty or supplies.  

http://weather.aol.com/2012/10/31/tempers-flare-as-food-runs-short-in-hoboken-n-j/?ncid=webmail1

The National Guard has several vehicles that can deliver food and water neighborhood by neighborhood.  Citizen groups are also forming to assist with food and water distribution.  

Burger King has an emergency food and water distribution group.  They have been contacted.  Wegmans is fully operational in New Jersey.  Contacts have been made with New Jersey Emergency Services and with the New Jersey Food Council.  

Efforts are now underway to establish channels for using crowd-sourcing, intelligent social networks, social network analysis, and media analysis on the New Jersey food and water assessments.  Linkages are being made between DHS and the National Center for Food Protection and Defense to identify and resolve gaps in assessment processes.