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Public Health VS Biological and Chemical Terrorist Attacks

Author            : John E. Laye, MSci, FBCI

Designation    :Managing Partner

Company        : Contingency Management Consultants

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This paper advocates integrated: planning and training for all disciplines’ managers responding to biological and chemical terrorism. It emphasizes the need to include public health in the integration.

Biological and chemical agents match terrorists’ stated objectives very well. The public safety agencies we think of as emergency first responders, although usually trained and equipped for conventional events such as: fires, intentional violence, floods and even multiple-casualty accidents, are not usually proficient when confronted ith biological or chemical releases created to cause mass casualties. Planners and managers need to know when public health can be effective, what its capabilities and limitations are, and how to order those resources quickly.

Since 9 / 11 there has been a lot of thought and some action around those issues, and this paper discusses what has been put in place –and what’s still in process. This paper recognizes that public health capabilities are often limited in smaller jurisdictions and some larger regions, and recommends ways to overcome this deficiency.

This paper also describes ways public health can effectively help other emergency response agencies in more routine events, including terrorists’ threats and warnings. Two of the examples provided are: Report of a substance dumped into the water supply. Threat to release a substance into the air upwind of a critical facility or public assembly. The paper also makes addresses public health’s limitations, with recommendations to overcome them.

Health organizations with expertise to help manage large-scale events are listed with contacts’ information, as are higher education resources. Situations and resources discussed include mass fatalities and veterinary assistance. Volunteer organizations with trained medical personnel to assist in large-scale events are listed and quotations by leaders and experts to help raise the consciousness of other decision makers are provided.

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