MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL

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Subject: MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL             

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        DETECTION

             The following information, if available, will help in
        determining the occurrence of a biological attack.

             0 The number of acutely ill military and civilian parties. A
              ,3r e      r of casualties with similar clinical findings
             woul  be expected in the first hours or days and, in the case
             of toxins, as short as minutes. The epidemiology should be
             that of a massive single source.
             e The atta     rate    clinical illness will be very :,@gh
             relative @o those at risk.

             0 The illness type                al or "impossible" for the
             geographic area.    or example, Venezuelan equine encephalitis
             in Europe.

             0 Signature of the aerosol route of exposure. There may be
             an unusual prevalence             tory involvement in diseases
             that, when acquired in nature, almost always cause a different
             non-pulmonary syndrome. For example, inhalation anthrax
             versus cutaneous anthrax.
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             0 Record faQIigy rates. An unusual number of fulminating
             and fatal cases result from the fact that a large nfimber of
             individuals at the high density region of the infectious or
             toxic cloud will be exposed to multiples of the lethal dose by
             aerosol. Others receiving smaller doses may show classical
             clinical syndromes. Rapidly fatal cases may develop few
             distinctive symptoms and signs.

             0 Definitive geo         c areas of disease. When aegosols are
             used,          es will tend to coincide with wind direction and
             are predictable.

             0 Evidence of simultaneous exposure to multi2le agents.

             * Evidence of exposure to one or more unusual or exotic
             pathogens.

             0 Evidence of low attack rate in those working in areas with
             filtered air or a closed ventilation system. Personnel
             working indoors at the time of the attack may also show longer
             attack rates.






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