Bioterrorism Watch Archives – November 1, 2006
November 1, 2006
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Dark vision: Medical countermeasures against the next wave of bioterror
Five years after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that followed, stakeholders in public health, medicine, and private industry are forging a partnership that anticipates the next generation of deadly challenges to the nation's biodefense. -
Plotting medical counter-measures out to 2023
A draft federal plan for development and acquisition of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats includes the following overarching principles: -
Brush with terror: HHS Sec recalls trial by fire
In an unusual personal aside at a strategic planning meeting, Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently recalled a harrowing night when it appeared for a few hours that a bioterrorism attack was underway at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. -
CDC: N95 respirators for HCWs in flu pandemic
N95 respirators are rarely used as an infection control barrier during seasonal influenza outbreaks, but the emergence of a global pandemic flu strain would change that thinking rapidly.