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Red Cross: Dealing with Unexpected Disasters
This site offers a description of Red Cross disaster services, with disaster safety information. It features an article “Terrorism—Preparing for the Unexpected”. Available in both English and Spanish PDF, it contains useful information and good sense recommendations relating to: what you can do to prepare; positive steps to take when disaster strikes and a First Aid Primer. It also offers a link to the publication, “Guide for Business and Industry and/or Preparing Your Business for the Unthinkable”.
CDC: Public Health Emergency Preparedness
In general, all information presented on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site concerning preparation, planning, emergency response, lab information, etc. is available for download and public use. However, users may encounter some pages that require a login password and id. If this is the case please assume that information presented and items available for download are for authorized access only and not for redistribution. The site also features resources and informational links, with facts and frequently asked questions about Biological and Chemical Agents.
CDC: List of Toxins
This is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Biological Diseases/Agents Listing. It features all known Category A, B and C Diseases/Agents. The U.S. public health system and primary healthcare providers must be prepared to address varied biological agents, including pathogens that are rarely seen in the United States. High-priority agents include organisms that pose a risk to national security because they can be easily disseminated or transmitted from person to person; cause high mortality, and have the potential for major public health impact; might cause public panic and social disruption; and require special action for public health preparedness.
Report: Biological Weapons Threat Against US
This site features the Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland "White Paper", An Assessment of the Biological Weapons Threat to the United States, prepared for the Conference on Emerging Threats Assessment. Biological Terrorism, at the Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth College, July 7-9, 2000. This paper evaluates the threat of biological weapons use against the United States in the near term. It does this by surveying, successively, the proliferation of biological weapons (BW) in identified state programs; the historical record regarding the potential for state-supported terrorism with biological weapons; the experience of the use of biological agents by non-state groups, either identified as "terrorist" organizations, or by any other designation; and the requirements and parameters for non-state groups to produce biological agents capable of being used as weapons systems.
State Health Officials
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) site features an interactive map of the United States that links users to state and territorial public health agencies. ASTHO is the national non-profit organization representing the state and territorial public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia. ASTHO’s members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy, and to assuring excellence in state-based public health practice.
USPS: Security of the Mail
USPS site Includes information concerning the security of the mail for: Business; the Public; Postal Employees and the Media Mail Facilities/Service Updates and Mail Security FAQs are also featured.
Emedicine:Biological Weapons
eMedicine’s Biological Warfare Agents Journal is a comprehensive resource for medical information relating to CBRNE - biological warfare agents; emergency medicine; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives and their effects on the human body. The site includes information about the historic aspects of biological warfare agents; delivery, dissemination, and detection of biological warfare agents;bacterial agents; viral agents, and biological toxins.
FAQs: Personal Protection on Chemical/Biological Threat
The Henry L. Stimson Center’s stated mission is to offer practical, nonpartisan, creative solutions to the problems of national and international security through research projects of the highest quality. The FQA section offers some sound advise for those exploring the issues of personal safety in a post 9/11 America.
Federal Resources to Insure Domestic Preparedness
Surviving Chemical/Biological/Nuclear Terrorism
Johns Hopkins Univ. Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
SAIC: Center for Counterrorism, Technology, & Analysis
Sandia National Labs Center for Civil Force Protection
PBS Frontline: Plague War
World Health Organization
NIH Toxnet: Toxicology Database
National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
Virtual Flight Surgeons
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