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First Responders Able To Visualize Post-Event Disaster Environments Using New Software Tool

Using iPad™ mobile devices, emergency preparedness officials and first responders participating last month in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE-11) were able, for the first time, to make use of a new, science-based software tool that allows them to view and modify accurate models of building damage and other post-event disaster Read More »

August 19, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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‘Wider plan for new diseases needed’

(Bangladesh News 24 hours) “But the culture of not working together stands in the way of formulating such policies,” said coordinator of One Health Bangladesh Prof Nitish Chandra Debnath on Thursday at a media orientation on anthrax outbreaks. The Institute of Epidemiology…

August 19, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Biodetection Cannot Rely Only on Technology, Experts Say

Biodefense experts are highlighting the importance of person-to-person awareness and cooperation in identifying the potential terrorist release of a biological agent, National Defense Magazine reported in its September issue (see GSN, Aug. 1). Public health professionals at a recent forum in Washington said existing surveillance technology, such as the federal government’s Biowatch program that deploys Read More »

August 18, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Funding Renewed for Pathogen Dispersal Modeling

The United States has extended by five years funding of an effort to develop computer simulations for the dispersal of disease agents released deliberately or by natural means, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University said on Tuesday (see GSN, March 1). The effort, dubbed “Synthetic Information Systems for Better Informing Public Health Policy-makers,” started Read More »

August 18, 2011
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KCHD emergency drill is a first for Tennessee – WVLT

KCHD emergency drill is a first for TennesseeWVLTIn the event of a national emergency involving bioterrorism or a natural pandemic, the SNS has the capability to supplement and re-supply local health authorities that may be overwhelmed by the crisis, with response time as little as 12 hours. …