AAR INAUGURAL MTG OF BIOL WARFARE AD HOC WKG GROUP

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Subject: AAR INAUGURAL MTG OF BIOL WARFARE AD HOC WKG GROUP              

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Folder Title: AAR  INAUGURAL MEETING                                                                          

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                                                UNCLASSIFIED
                                    s) LI)-IVET

                       AFTER ACTION REPORT: INAUGURAL MEETING

                     OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AD HOC WORKING GROUP

                              1100-1600, 20 Aucrust 1990


          1. (U) AGENDA (encl 1)

          2. (U) SIGN-IN-ROSTER (encl 2)
          3. (U) PURPOSE:    To assess biological warfare threat against
                            U.S. Forces in support of Operation Desert
                            Shield and to evaluate AMEDDs ability to
                            respond with emphasis on Detection and
                            Surveillance; Diagnosis; Therapy; and,
                            Prevention, including Personal Protective
                            Measures, Chemoprophylaxis, and Vaccination.

          4. (U) GOALS:

              a. (U) identify and define critical biological warfare
          issues related to Desert Shield.

              b. (U) Develop consensus for use and procurement of
          vaccines.

              C. (U) Establish a permanent "Task Force for Biological
          Warfare Issues" consisting of a panel of experts in the areas
          of medicine, research, logistics, intelligence, and other
          disciplines.

              d. (U) Initiate action to develop a 11 Medical Defense
          Against Biological Warfare Plan" for Desert Shield.

          5. REFERENCES:

              a. (U) Biological Warfare Doctrine - U.S. Army has
          adopted NATO document on chemical and biological warfare which
          will become FM B-9. Draft copies were distributed at the
          meeting.
              b. (U) "Plan for I=unization of the Army Force Against
          Endemic Diseases and Biological Warfare Agents with
          Investigational Kew Drugs, Vaccines, Toxoids, and Globulin,"
          document prepared by COL Ernest Takafuji and MAJ Robert Eng;
next
          meeting.

          CLASSIFIED BY: MULTIPLE SOURCES
          DECIASSIFY ON: OADR

          DECLASSIFIED              c!i!twnrr   UNCLASSIFIED
          ON: 07 NOV 96            @-RE I
          BY: SEC ARMY (DAMH) UNDER SEC 3.4 EO 12958

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