COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF SUSPECTED BIOLO WARFARE

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Subject: COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF SUSPECTED BIOLO WARFARE        

Unit: VAR. BUMED  

Parent Organization: BUMED       

Box  ID: BX303819

Folder Title: DESERT SHIELD-STORM CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MESSAGES CNA 57-60890                               

Document Number:         45

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           2.-MSPECIMEN COLLECTION:
           (A) 4* EXPOSED PERSONNEL: ACUTE SERUM (20ML, 7 ML RED TO X3)
           SHOULD BE COLLECTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOLLOWING THE ONSET OF
           SYMPTOMS. IN ADDMON, SERUM SHOULD BE COLLECTED AT THIS nME FROM
           ALL PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN THE SUSPECTED ATRACK CONVALY-SCENT SERUM
           SHOULD BE COLLECTED AGAIN FROM Al.L SURVIVORS AND MEMBERS OF THE
           ATRACKED UNIT IN 3-4 WEEKS.
           (B) @ AUTOPSY SAMPLES:
           (1) (S) TISSUE: COLLFGR IN DUPLICATE, (1) 25ZO GRAMS FROZEN FOR
           MICRO/TOX, (2) FORMAI.JN FIXED FOR HISTOPATHOLOGY. ORGANS TO BE
           SAMPLED INCLUDE LONG, MY-DIASTTNAL LYMPHNODES, SPLEEN, AND LRVER,
           OBVIOIJS LISIONS SHOULD BE SAMPLED AS WEI.L AS ADJACENT NORMAL TISSUE.
           (2)@ BLOOD: AT LEMT 20,L SHOULD BE OBT@D AND SUBMITTED AS
           EITHER SERUM OR CLOT/CELLS.
           -"ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIMENS:
           (1) @ SAMPLING OF POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL SOURCES AFRER A SUSPECTED
           BW INCIDENT IS IMPORTANT IN DEARMINING THE nTE OF AGENT AND METHOD
           OF DELIVERY
             (A)@ TISSUE AND BLOOD FROM DEAD ANIMALS SHOULD BE SAMPLED AS
           ABOVE FOR HUMAN SPECIMENS.
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             (B)@WATFR AND FOOD SAMPLES SHOULD BE COLLECTED IN AV     LE
           CONTAINERS IE. URINE SPECIMEN CUPS, "WHIRL" PLASTIC BAGS, PLASTIC
           BAGS, ETC).
             C)@ POWDERS OR RF-SIDUESFROM SURFACES AND/OR VEGETATION
           SHOULD BE CAREFULLY PLACED IN APPROPRIATE CONTAINERS AND TIGHTLY
           SF-ALED (CONTACT PERSONNEL BELOW).
           (2) @ WHILF, ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING @R A SUSPECTED BW INCIDENT IS
           APPROPRIATE, ROUL INE SURVE   CE OF POTENTIAL BW SOURCES OR TARGETS,
           SUCJ AS WATER, FOOD, AND SURFACES IS CONSIDERED NEITHER FEASIBLY- NOR
           REAJJSTIC.
           3.@ SPECIMEN LABELING-
FFERENT),
           DATE.
           (B) @ OTHER REQUIRED INFORMATION (WITH APPROPRIATE SECURITY
           CLASSIFICATION):
             1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION (nTE OF UNIT ATRACKED,
           OPERATIONALSCENARIO WHEN SUSPECTED ATRACK TOOK PLACE, EYACT
           LOCA'NON
           OF ATTACK AND DESCRIPTION OF TERRAIN, DATE, TIME OF DAY, WEATHER
           CONDITIONS, SUSPECTED DELIVERY MODE, VEHICLE, OR SOURCE OF AGENT).
             (2)@ DETAU-ED CLINICAL HISTORY AND AUTOPLY FINDINGS (IF
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           APPROPRIATE) INCLUDING TIME OF DEATH, PI-ACE, DATE AND TIME OF
           COI.LECMON, PROSECUTOR AND UNIT.


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File Room = sep96_declassified
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Box ID = BX303819
Unit = VAR. BUMED
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Folder Title = DESERT SHIELD-STORM CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MESSAGES CNA 57-60890
Folder Seq # = 57
Subject = COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF SUSPECTED BIOLO
Document Seq # = 45
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 02-JAN-1997