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The Devils Gardens: A History of Landmines

BMJ 2002; 325 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0208297 (Published 01 August 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;325:0208297
  1. John Pearn, professor of paediatrics and child health1
  1. 1University of Queensland, Australia

Doctors have international obligations in a contracting world; and many doctors today travel or work in one of the 28 or more countries where landmines are seeded. Knowledge about the threat of landmines and an understanding of the 2000 to 3000 blasts that occur each month—leaving a quarter of the victims dead and every survivor disabled—are essential informational …

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