Word: bioterrorist
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Many view the events that occurred in the fall of 2001 as a wake-up call for the United States. Prior to 2001, support for preparations to address bioterrorist events was limited, and funding at the state and federal level was inadequate. But the events of 2001 brought a new public and political awareness to the threat of bioterrorism...
Into this environment has come the national program to prepare for the possible use of smallpox as a bioterrorist weapon. On Dec. 13, 2002, President George W. Bush announced a plan to protect the United States by offering smallpox vaccination to ten million Americans. Healthcare workers, public health personnel, public safety personnel and Department of Defense employees would receive smallpox vaccinations over the next year, followed at some point by mass vaccination of the general public. This plan has generated substantial debate in the public health community. As in any measure to protect the public health from an infectious agent...
...family members or patients, it is likely that the program will never be widely accepted by the medical community. The CDC recently added additional restrictions on individuals who could receive vaccination after four experienced heart attacks, three of them with fatal outcomes. On the other hand, if another bioterrorist event occurs within the United States it is likely that many more healthcare workers, as well as members of the public, will seek to be vaccinated. Only time will tell which of these two scenarios will occur...
...major European capital. Without vaccines or antitoxins to reduce fatalities, the public is largely unprotected. But the government quickly dispenses a new nasal spray that puts people's immune systems into overdrive, protecting them not only against anthrax but a whole range of pathogens, including many of the deadly bioterrorist agents that governments believe are most likely to be used. It sounds farfetched, but last week's ricin arrests in London show that the possibility of a bioterror attack is not fantasy. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that such an attack was "present and real and with...
...people are not just worried about germs, Thompson said. Thus, the book’s epilogue offers suggestions for how to respond to a bioterrorist attack...