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Jim Hawley, Manager Lincoln County Emergency Services Lincoln County Courthouse 225 West Olive St., Room 103 Newport, OR 97365 Office Phone: (541) 265-4199 http://www.co.lincoln.or.us/ | Mike Bamberger, Coordinator Benton County Emergency Services 180 NW Fifth St. Corvallis, OR 97330 Office Phone: (541) 766-6864 Fax Number: (541) 766-6052 http://www.co.benton.or.us/ | Jim Howell, Coordinator Linn County Emergency Services 1115 Jackson St. SE Albany, OR 97321 Office Phone: (541) 967-3911 Fax Number: (541) 967-8169 http://www.co.linn.or.us/ |
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"A bioterrorism attack in Oregon is unlikely, but we need to be ready." — Grant Higginson, M.D. Oregon Department of Human Services Centers for Disease Control: Anthrax Bolulism Plague Smallpox Tularemia Federation of American Scientists: BioWar Agents Anthrax Guidelines CBW Special Weapons Journal of the American Medical Association: Anthrax Botulinum Toxin Plague Smallpox Tularemia Johns Hopkins: Anthrax Botulinum Toxin Plague Smallpox Tularemia Chronological History of Biological Warfare and Terrorism The Biological Terrorism Response Manual by Paul P. Rega M.D., FACEP BioTerry.com Anthrax 
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The Dalles, Oregon was the site of the first biological-weapon attack in the United States
when followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh contaminated drinking glasses and salad bars with
salmonella typhimurium in 1984. Nobody died, but 751 people came down with the nausea,
severe diarrhea, chills, fever and dizziness that mark salmonella poisoning. The group's aim was to incapacitate residents of the town so they would be unable to vote in an upcoming election. The Rajneeshees expected the election of county commissioners would have an impact on land-use decisions that would thwart their controversial plans to build new international headquarters for the Indian guru on a large ranch the group purchased near Antelope, Oregon. In April 1979, an anthrax outbreak in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk, 850 miles east of Moscow, killed 66 of 94 infected people. The first victim died after four days; the last one died six weeks later. The Soviet government claimed the deaths were caused by intestinal anthrax from tainted meat. It was not until 1992 that Russian President Boris Yeltsin admitted the outbreak was the result of military activity at a Soviet biological weapons facility located in the city. Centers for Disease Control CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response Center for the Study of Bioterrorism & Emerging Infections Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Bioterrorism References U.S. Army Medical NBC Online Information Server U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Oregon Health Division Emergency Medical Services Oregon Health Division Center for Environment and Health Systems Oregon Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Oregon Bioterrorism Fact Sheet Oregon Emergency Management Biological Warfare and its Cutaneous Manefestations, by Thomas W. McGovern, MD, MAJ, MC and George W. Christopher, LTC, USAF, MC CBRNE - Biological Warfare Agents, by Daniel J. Dire, MD, FACEP, COL, MC, USAR; coauthored by David A Long, MD; Lance D. Williams, MD; and Thomas W. McGovern, MD Consequence Management: Domestic Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Chris Seiple in Parameters, Autumn 1997, pp. 119-34, U.S. Army War College Terrorists, WMD, and the US Army Reserve, by Charles L. Mercier, Jr. in Parameters, Autumn 1997, pp. 98-118, U.S. Army War College Terrorism: Haz-Mat with an Attitude, by Lt. Steve Weliver, Waterloo (Iowa) Fire Rescue Emergency Response to Chemical/Biological Terrorist Incidents, by Clark L. Staten, Executive Director Emergency Response & Research Institute The Specter of Biological Weapons, by Leonard A. Cole in Scientific American Anthrax as a Biological Weapon - Medical and Public Health Management, by Thomas V. Inglesby, MD; Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH; John G. Bartlett, MD; Michael S. Ascher, MD; Edward Eitzen, MD, MPH; Arthur M. Friedlander, MD; Jerome Hauer, MPH; Joseph McDade, PhD; Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH; Tara O'Toole, MD, MPH; Gerald Parker, PhD, DVM; Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc; Philip K. Russell, MD; Kevin Tonat, PhD; for the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense in (JAMA. 1999;281:1735-1745) Rx Against Terror, by Melissa Hendricks in Johns Hopkins Magazine The Israel Defense Force provides extensive online information concerning Civil Defense, and Protected Space/Shelters, Medical Q & A and Biological Weapons Q & A among other relevant topics. Download Handbook on the Medical Aspects of NBC Defensive Operations, FM 8-9 Download NBC Field Handbook, FM 3-7 Download Treatment of Chemical Agent Casualties . . . FM 8-285 10/17/01: For adults, the CDC-recommended doses for anthrax patients are 500 milligrams of Cipro twice a day for 60 days; or 100 mg of doxycycline twice a day for 60 days; or 500 mg of amoxicillin three times a day for 60 days. The CDC recommendations warned that pregnant women were recommended to take only amoxicillin, not the other drugs; doxycycline was the first choice for the elderly; and children need special doses based on their weight. Penicillin dosages are under consideration. 10/17/01: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) www.fda.gov has approved three antibiotics to treat anthrax: Penicillin, Doxycycline and Ciprofloxacin. Nurses's PDR Resource Center: Amoxicillin, Ciprofloxacin, Doxycycline, Penicillin RxList.com: Amoxicillin, Ciprofloxacin, Doxycycline, Penicillin |
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