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Bioterrorism Resources
Organizations and Agencies
- Bioterrorism
Surveillance & Epidemiology Team (California Department of Health
Services)
- The "Bioterrorism team is part of a multidisciplinary CDHS initiative to
strengthen public health infrastructure to detect, identify, investigate,
and control illnesses due to biological or chemical terrorist attacks. The
team will focus on enhancing state and local health surveillance and
epidemiologic response capacity for diseases due to biological agents. If a
suspected bioterrorism event occurs, the BT team will also provide
epidemiologic assistance and coordination to the local health departments."
- California
Bioterrorism Surveillance and Epidemiologic Response Plan (January
2002)
- Center for Infectious Disease
Research and Policy (University of Minnesota)
- CIDRAP focuses on food safety, biosecurity, and bioterrorism,
emphasizing public health preparedness. They do this by "mining and rapidly
disseminating comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-the-minute biomedical
knowledge with emphasis on practical Internet-based information designed for
immediate use in applied settings," as well as by conducting research, and
by providing consultation and educational services.
- Centers for Public Health
Preparedness
- "In 2000, CDC established a national system of Centers for Public Health
Preparedness to strengthen state and local workforce capacity to respond to
bioterrorism and to support CDC's prevention programs in general."
- Center for Infectious Disease
Preparedness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Other
academic and specialty centers include:
- North Carolina Center for
Public Health Preparedness (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)
- The Northwest
Center for Public Health Practice (University of Washington)
- Mailman
School of Public Health (Columbia University)
- Iowa
Center for Public Health Preparedness (University of Iowa)
- Center for the Study of
Bioterrorism (Saint Louis University)
- Center for Public Health and
Disasters (UCLA)
- National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Biodefense Research (National
Institutes of Health)
- "NIAID is the primary institute at the NIH for emerging infectious
disease research, including research on pathogens that can be used as agents
of bioterrorism." Their site includes summaries of NIAID research, including
vaccine research, as well as information on the Division of Microbiology and
Infectious Diseases.
- Radiation Event Medical Management
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- Provides guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about
clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty radiological/nuclear
events. The just-in-time, evidence-based information is written with
background information and is in context, to make these issues
understandable to those without formal radiation expertise. It is
downloadable in advance, so that it can be available during an event if the
Internet is not accessible. It features timelines of what activities should
go on and when, as well as clinical tools and guidelines and references.
- U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Public Health Preparedness and
Response
- Includes information on anthrax, smallpox, radiological emergencies,
and other biological and chemical agents, including agents, laboratory
analysis, response and cleanup, and treatment.
- Emerging Infectious
Diseases journal
- Includes many articles and issues on anthrax and other
bioterrorism-related topics.
- Emergency
Preparedness and Response Branch, National Center for Environmental
Health
- EPRB provides "assistance to local, state, and federal agencies in
planning their public health-related responses to emergency situations,
and responds to requests for public health emergency response and recovery
assistance after technologic and natural disasters."
- U. S.
Food and Drug Administration Counterterrorism Page
- Includes information on public health initiatives and preparedness,
anthrax vaccine, food supply safety, and more.
- The
Bioterrorism Act of 2002: complete text of the Act, plus information
on FDA's responsibilites.
- World Health
Organization. Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response.
Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics (Formerly Health Aspects of
Biological and Chemical Weapons)
- Contains information and documents on national and international
preparedness, and global alert and response.
- The Global
Outbreak Alert and Response Network "provides an operational framework
to link the expertise and skills needed to keep the international
community constantly alert to the threat of outbreaks and ready to
respond."
- Public
Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons: WHO Guidance
(2004)
- Guidelines
for the Surveillance and Control of Anthrax in Humans and Animals
(1998)
Publications and Databases
- Biological
and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response
(MMWR, April 21, 2000)
- Consists of the recommendations of the CDC Strategic Planning Workgroup
"to reduce U.S. vulnerability to biological and chemical terrorism:
preparedness planning, detection and surveillance, laboratory analysis,
emergency response, and communication systems. Success of the plan hinges on
strengthening the relationships between medical and public health
professionals and on building new partnerships with emergency management,
the military, and law enforcement professionals." Also available in PDF format, which includes
a CME examination.
- Bioterrorism
Preparedness and Response: Use of Information Technologies and Decision
Support Systems (June, 2002; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
- This report "synthesize(s) the evidence on information technologies and
decision support systems that may serve the information needs of clinicians
and public health officials in the event of bioterrorism. Current national
efforts of particular promise include those to develop and evaluate systems
that integrate the collection, analysis, and presentation of data from
detectors, clinicians, laboratories, and hospitals to public health decision
makers."
- Bioterrorism:
Preparedness Varied across State and Local Jurisdictions (US General
Accounting Office, April 2003)
- "In this report GAO provides information on state and local preparedness
and state and local concerns regarding the federal role in funding and
improving preparedness."
- Medical
Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (1997)
- From the Textbook of Military Medicine, Office of the Surgeon General
and Department of the Army. Provides historical background, epidemiology,
diagnosis, immunoprohylaxis, and more on many chemical and biological
agents. Also has information on triage, decontamination, and long-term
effects.
- National Academy Press publications
- Several recent relevant publications have been produced, including:
- Firepower in
the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and
Bioterrorism (2001)
- Preparing for
Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System
Program (2002)
- Secret
Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (2002)
- Biological
Threats and Terrorism: Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities:
Workshop Summary (2002)
and more,
from the National Academies Searchable Webshelf Collection.
- National
Institute of Justice Critical Incident Technology publications (US
Department of Justice)
- "NIJ publishes and identifies research reports, research summaries,
guides, and other documents for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers
interested in critical incident and counterterrorism technologies."
Documents include An Introduction to
Biological Agent Detection Equipment for Emergency First Responders, Guide for the
Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for Emergency
First Responders, and more.
- Responding to
Bioterrorism: Assessing California's Preparedness (March 2002; 879kb PDF
file)
- This report, from the California Research Bureau (California State
Library), "provides an overview of California’s preparedness for
bioterrorism including the Standardized Emergency Management System and the
California Terrorism Response Plan (CTRP) and describes the roles and
responsibilities of the network of state, federal, and local agencies
responders involved in CTRP implementation."
- Resource Guide for
Public Health Preparedness
- This database includes links to free full-text information including
expert guidelines, factsheets, websites, research reports, articles, and
other tools aimed at the public health community. All resources may be
searched by keyword or browsed by audience type, subject or CDC focus
area.
- Responding to the
Threat of Smallpox Bioterrorism: An Ounce of Prevention Is Best Approach
(April 2002)
- An analysis of the federal government's strategy for responding to a
deliberate smallpox attack. From the Cato
Institute.
- Training
Technology against Terror: Using Advanced Technology to Prepare America’s
Emergency Medical Personnel and First Responders for a Weapon of Mass
Destruction Attack (September 2002)
- "U.S. emergency response personnel still lack training to deal with a
weapons of mass destruction attack and only a coordinated interagency
approach making skillful use of new information technology can ensure that
effective, up-to-date training is available to the millions of personnel who
need it in a timely way." From the Federation
of American Scientists
Guides
- Biological Weapons
and Warfare
- A guide to government, NGO, and other biological weapons-related sites.
From All the Virology on
the WWW (Tulane University).
- Bioterrorism Information
& Resources (Infectious Diseases Society of America)
- Includes resources by agent (medical summary and clinical pathways), as
well as emergency notification procedures, laboratory protocols, and
numerous web resources.
- Responding First to
Bioterrorism: The National Academies Searchable Webshelf Collection
- This database of publications is searchable and browsable by subject
area, audience, source, and content type. "The resources presented in this
Web site are designed to help the community of first responders more easily
locate valuable bioterrorism preparedness information resources."
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