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Isolated Case of Bioterrorism-related Inhalational Anthrax, New York City, 2001
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003 On October 31, 2001, in New York City, a 61-year-old female hospital employee who had acquired inhalational anthrax died after a 6-day illness. To determine sources of exposure and identify additional persons at risk, the New York City Department of ...
Timothy H. Holtz +11 more
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Demand for Prophylaxis after Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax Cases, 2001
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Media reports suggested increased public demand for anthrax prophylaxis after the intentional anthrax cases in 2001, but the magnitude of anthrax-related prescribing in unaffected regions was not assessed.
Edward A. Belongia +4 more
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Form, science, and narrative in the anthropocene [PDF]
, 2019 A significant strand of contemporary fiction engages with scientific models that highlight a constitutive interdependency between humanity and material realities such as the climate or the geological history of our planet.
Caracciolo, Marco
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Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health in the Age of Bioterrorism, 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 Examines ten key indicators to evaluate state preparedness to respond to bioterrorist attacks and other public health emergencies.
Laura M. Segal +3 more
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Waterborne and foodborne zoonotic protozoa, an unknown threat as a biological agent in bioterrorism [PDF]
Bihdāsht-i Mavādd-i Ghaz̠āyī, 2019 Some zoonotic protozoa can be easily transmitted through food and water and cause serious illnesses in humans and animals. Because these pathogenic agents have some characteristics of an effective biological agent such as latent period, low infectious ...
N. Hajipour, J. Gharekhani
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018 Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia and a Tier I bioterrorism agent. In the 1900s, several vaccines were developed against tularemia including the killed “Foshay” vaccine, subunit vaccines comprising F.
Qingmei Jia, Marcus A. Horwitz
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Perceived Ability to Practice in Disaster Management Among Public Health Nurses in Aceh, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2011 Background: The increasing number of disaster events around the world has challenged every country to develop better disaster-management strategies. As a part of healthcare system, public health nurses (PHNs) should be involved in caring for people in ...
Maneewat, K. (Khomapak) +2 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 The advent of domestic bioterrorism has emphasized the need for enhanced detection of clusters of acute illness. We describe a monitoring system operational in eastern Massachusetts, based on diagnoses obtained from electronic records of ambulatory-care ...
Ross Lazarus +6 more
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Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2010 Introduction: Previous findings have demonstrated that preparedness and planning within the public health system are inadequately developed to respond to an act of biological or chemical terrorism.
Crane Jeffery +3 more
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