Bioterrorism Watch Archives – March 1, 2005
March 1, 2005
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Bioterror game finds nations reticent to share smallpox vaccine post-attack
A coordinated smallpox attack on international transportation hubs quickly would divide the world into the haves and the have nots, exerting extraordinary pressure on world leaders to withhold their vaccine stocks to protect their own populations, a bioterrorism war game revealed. -
Take-home lessons of Atlantic Storm
A full analysis of the Atlantic Storm bioterrorism exercise, held in Washington, DC, Jan. 14, is forthcoming, but organizers cited these initial conclusions after the project. -
Hospitals unprepared for a surge of child victims
Media images of the smallest victims of terrorism and natural disasters are seared in the collective memory. Terrorist attacks on Russian schoolchildren and the tsunami disaster in Asia have shown that a horrific surge of pediatric patients is a possibility for todays health care system. -
Feds envision temporary medical station network
Federal health officials are developing a system of temporary health care facilities called contingency stations to prepare an overburdened health care system for a mass casualty event. -
New bioterror vaccines are getting in the pipeline
The federal government has awarded $232 million to fund research and development of new vaccines against three potential agents of bioterrorism: smallpox, plague, and tularemia. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will administer the contracts.