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The danger isn't over when the storm dies down.
The danger isn't over when the storm dies down.
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Monkey Island is, perhaps unsurprisingly, home to thousands of monkeys. And when a
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major hurricane blew directly across the island, the researchers who study those monkeys thought
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that they were going to return to a scene of mass tragedy. But only two monkeys died
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during the storm. It wasn’t until long after the skies cleared that the bodies started piling up.
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In the years following the hurricane, fifty more monkeys died than usual. Stressed-out
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monkeys with weakened immune systems succumbed to diseases. Traumatized females gave birth to
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babies who died soon after they were born. And with over half the trees on the island gone,
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monkeys were suddenly way more exposed, leading to more heat-related illnesses
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and deaths. All hurricanes have these kinds of lingering deaths – sometimes lots of them;
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for example, the average hurricane that makes landfall in the US has an aftermath
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number of more than 200. And other disasters have aftermath deaths too. Major floods lead
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to heart attacks in overworked farmers, who have to replant their soggy fields. Earthquakes often
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lead to disease outbreaks by breaking sewage pipes and creating unsanitary conditions.
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Scientists are still trying to figure out what it is about a particular disaster that determines
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its aftermath number. Disasters like earthquakes tend to have lower aftermath numbers for the same
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total of deaths because more of the deaths happen during the disaster. But the fact that aftermath
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deaths exist at all –and that some disasters have so many of them– means we probably need to
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pay just as much attention –or even more– to the lingering effects of a disaster as to the disaster
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itself. And when you hear that a hurricane in the US killed, say, 5 people, you should
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multiply that number in your head by around 200 to understand the true death count of the hurricane.