CDC plans to test bioterrorism readiness
Emergency Management Alert, January 28, 2004
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to test regional smallpox defenses and bioterrorism preparedness by late 2004, GovExec.com reports.
The exercises will measure how state and regional public health and emergency departments have adopted CDC guidelines and how they would respond to a biological terrorist attack, including one involving smallpox, said Joseph Henderson, the CDC's associated director for terrorism preparedness and response, in a recent speech to a federal advisory council.
CDC officials plan to raise awareness of the smallpox threat and ease fears about the safety of the vaccine. Concerns about the vaccine and the perceived lack of a smallpox threat led to the failure last year of the CDC's smallpox immunization campaign. Health officials hoped to immunize hundreds of thousands of health care and emergency workers, but after a year, fewer than 40,000 civilian emergency workers have received vaccinations.
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