Russia, Supercourse and bioterrorism preparedness
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... Our Help for Russian/ FSU Public Health Teachers • Cutting edge, interesting lectures available from Supercourse • Free access to the Supercourse web library of lectures • Share knowledge, education and training systems with other public health professionals in FSU and worldwide ...
Biological Threats - Georgia Poison Center
... BT attack is inhalational disease; cutaneous disease is also possible • Early in the course of illness, inhalational anthrax is not easily distinguished from an influenza-like illness due to other causes • Antibiotic prophylaxis can be used to prevent development of disease in infected persons • Ant ...
... BT attack is inhalational disease; cutaneous disease is also possible • Early in the course of illness, inhalational anthrax is not easily distinguished from an influenza-like illness due to other causes • Antibiotic prophylaxis can be used to prevent development of disease in infected persons • Ant ...
2012-Week3_Bio - Teaching Terrorism
... Conclusion Biological agents: • are more complicated than chemical weapons • include bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, fungi and toxins; Category A biological agents are most severe, and include smallpox and anthrax • are most desirable as weapons when they have a high capacity for small doses to caus ...
... Conclusion Biological agents: • are more complicated than chemical weapons • include bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, fungi and toxins; Category A biological agents are most severe, and include smallpox and anthrax • are most desirable as weapons when they have a high capacity for small doses to caus ...
biological agents
... VX, Sarin, Tabun and Soman before the 1991 Gulf War, although much of this has been destroyed by UNSCOM inspectors. • However, intelligence estimates that 360 tons of chemical warfare agent remain unaccounted for – and that Iraq could produce mustard gas within weeks and nerve agents such as VX, tab ...
... VX, Sarin, Tabun and Soman before the 1991 Gulf War, although much of this has been destroyed by UNSCOM inspectors. • However, intelligence estimates that 360 tons of chemical warfare agent remain unaccounted for – and that Iraq could produce mustard gas within weeks and nerve agents such as VX, tab ...
Beyond Anthrax: The Weaponization of Infectious Diseases
... scientist’s ultimate standing. This theme returns in an essay on the citation game. Chapters on specific questions remind me of the first article I read by the author, on whether Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is to blame for Crohn disease [1]. The typical ingredients in these essays ar ...
... scientist’s ultimate standing. This theme returns in an essay on the citation game. Chapters on specific questions remind me of the first article I read by the author, on whether Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is to blame for Crohn disease [1]. The typical ingredients in these essays ar ...
Preparing and Responding to Bioterrorism: Information for
... Be familiar with the agents most likely to be used in a biological weapons attack and the most likely mode of dissemination Know the clinical presentation(s) of the Category A agents and features that may distinguish them from more common diseases Be familiar with diagnosis, treatment recommenda ...
... Be familiar with the agents most likely to be used in a biological weapons attack and the most likely mode of dissemination Know the clinical presentation(s) of the Category A agents and features that may distinguish them from more common diseases Be familiar with diagnosis, treatment recommenda ...
Powerpoint
... infected animals or to tissue from infected animals or when anthrax spores are used as a bioterrorist weapon. - will not transmit from person to person - the spores can be used as a bioterroist weapon, as was the case in 2001, when the spores had been intentionally distributed through the post ...
... infected animals or to tissue from infected animals or when anthrax spores are used as a bioterrorist weapon. - will not transmit from person to person - the spores can be used as a bioterroist weapon, as was the case in 2001, when the spores had been intentionally distributed through the post ...
Anthrax: Biology of Bacillus anthracis - ePrints@IISc
... from the catalytic site and results in the active EF. His 351 in the molecule acts as the catalytic base. In addition, the activation site has a single metal ion wellpositioned for catalysis. The carboxy-terminal of EF is sufficient to cause catalysis. The rate of conversion of ATP into cAMP by EF i ...
... from the catalytic site and results in the active EF. His 351 in the molecule acts as the catalytic base. In addition, the activation site has a single metal ion wellpositioned for catalysis. The carboxy-terminal of EF is sufficient to cause catalysis. The rate of conversion of ATP into cAMP by EF i ...
Protocol for dealing with suspected anthrax in Ireland
... can be changed to penicillin if the organism is found to be sensitive. Contacts of cases There is no need to provide antibiotic prophylaxis or immunisation to contacts of patients unless there is concern that they were also exposed to the initial release. (d) Environmental decontamination (To be car ...
... can be changed to penicillin if the organism is found to be sensitive. Contacts of cases There is no need to provide antibiotic prophylaxis or immunisation to contacts of patients unless there is concern that they were also exposed to the initial release. (d) Environmental decontamination (To be car ...
Critical Care Transport Run Review October 2004
... understaffed hospitals, care will be denied to the sickest adults and children." Individuals "who are severely burned, have incurable and spreading cancer, fatal genetic diseases, end-stage multiple sclerosis or ...
... understaffed hospitals, care will be denied to the sickest adults and children." Individuals "who are severely burned, have incurable and spreading cancer, fatal genetic diseases, end-stage multiple sclerosis or ...
Agents of Bioterrorism
... ALL suspected or confirmed cases should be reported to health authorities immediately ...
... ALL suspected or confirmed cases should be reported to health authorities immediately ...
Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax)
... people died from inhalational anthrax. In 2009, the FBI closed its investigation into the origin of the attacks concluding that Dr. Bruce Ivins, an anthrax researcher at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases had perpetrated the attack.6 However, Dr. Ivins committed suicide before ...
... people died from inhalational anthrax. In 2009, the FBI closed its investigation into the origin of the attacks concluding that Dr. Bruce Ivins, an anthrax researcher at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases had perpetrated the attack.6 However, Dr. Ivins committed suicide before ...
Terrorism 101
... contaminated bedding or clothing Rarely spread by air Transmission prevented by using airborne and contact precautions in health care settings ...
... contaminated bedding or clothing Rarely spread by air Transmission prevented by using airborne and contact precautions in health care settings ...
Facts About Anthrax
... to allied forces in Europe. The spores were still viable when scientists analyzed them in ...
... to allied forces in Europe. The spores were still viable when scientists analyzed them in ...
Biological Warfare Agents
... DNA virus: only infectious disease to have been eradicated; spread would be fast by droplet/aerosol Sx: 90% have classical presentation; incubation 7-17/7; infective once maculopapular rash develops (MM, face, forearms, trunk, legs; spares palms and soles) vesicular and pustular in 1-2/7 (all at s ...
... DNA virus: only infectious disease to have been eradicated; spread would be fast by droplet/aerosol Sx: 90% have classical presentation; incubation 7-17/7; infective once maculopapular rash develops (MM, face, forearms, trunk, legs; spares palms and soles) vesicular and pustular in 1-2/7 (all at s ...
Anthrax_A_Special_Lesson
... to allied forces in Europe. The spores were still viable when scientists analyzed them in ...
... to allied forces in Europe. The spores were still viable when scientists analyzed them in ...
Handout-Bioterrorism
... Post WWII • USA – 3400 people 1969, BTWC – Allegation • Korean War • Cuba ...
... Post WWII • USA – 3400 people 1969, BTWC – Allegation • Korean War • Cuba ...
case report - UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
... Anthrax has affected animals for thousands of years. Hundreds of thousands of agricultural animals—primarily cattle, sheep, goats, and horses—used to die each year from the disease until the introduction of anthrax vaccinations for animals, which has decreased the number of outbreaks in the United S ...
... Anthrax has affected animals for thousands of years. Hundreds of thousands of agricultural animals—primarily cattle, sheep, goats, and horses—used to die each year from the disease until the introduction of anthrax vaccinations for animals, which has decreased the number of outbreaks in the United S ...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION Bacillus anthracis
... Anthrax is an acute disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a Gram positive, sporeforming bacterial pathogen of both humans and animals (Dixon et al., 1999; Mock and Fouet, 2001). The bacilli are covered by an anti-phagocytic, polyglutamic capsule that helps to evade host immunity and mediates the ear ...
... Anthrax is an acute disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a Gram positive, sporeforming bacterial pathogen of both humans and animals (Dixon et al., 1999; Mock and Fouet, 2001). The bacilli are covered by an anti-phagocytic, polyglutamic capsule that helps to evade host immunity and mediates the ear ...
Two cases of human cutaneous anthrax in
... two times daily for seven days, and finally with corticosteroids and cefuroxime axetil 500 mg orally two times daily. As there had been no clinical improvement, and as it was known he had also been involved in the slaughter of the infected cow, he was admitted to the Department of Infectious Disease ...
... two times daily for seven days, and finally with corticosteroids and cefuroxime axetil 500 mg orally two times daily. As there had been no clinical improvement, and as it was known he had also been involved in the slaughter of the infected cow, he was admitted to the Department of Infectious Disease ...
