State leads in bioterror precautions
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No state is better prepared than Florida to detect and contain the deadly viruses, bacteria or toxins of a bioterrorist, according to a nationwide analysis released Tuesday.
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Police patrol the Capitol armed with rifles and wearing biological, chemical and radioactive attack gear. One senator was so concerned about the terrorist threat that he temporarily shut down his office during the recent pre-election recess. But more than three years after Sept. 11, Congress has yet to decide how it would respond to a catastrophic event that kills or incapacitates many or most of its members.
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The state Department of Health is receiving 370,000 more doses of flu vaccine for people at high risk for flu. The state will start shipping out the vaccine today and Wednesday to county
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WASHINGTON -- States that routinely deal with hurricanes and other natural disasters are better prepared than others to handle bioterrorism, but overall the nation is struggling to develop plans for public health emergencies, according to a study released
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Illinois appears to have made little progress in boosting its readiness for a bioterrorist attack, an independent group reported Tuesday.
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Washington DC, Dec. 15 - The terrorism preparedness the public has seen consists of mock disasters around the country testing reaction to chemical or biological attack.
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State and federal health authorities  were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak  that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island  getaway in Lake Erie.
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BOSTON Massachusetts is the least-prepared of all states to handle a bioterrorist attack, according to a study released yesterday.
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A sampling of Election Day security measures being taken by state and local officials around the country amid threat of a possible terrorist attack.
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SPRINGFIELD -- As the clock keeps ticking on the fate of thousands of flu vaccine doses the state ordered from companies overseas, Gov.
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Public health researchers have developed a model for recommending a range of responses in the event of an anthrax bioterrorist attack.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday they are investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to medical syringes contaminated with bacteria.
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espite pledges two years ago to maintain a stockpile of drugs to protect Americans in the event of a bioterrorism attack, the federal government has so far set aside only 159 vials of anthrax vaccine for the civilian population enough for ...
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Jakarta (VNA) - The Indonesian government has set up a post to monitor the spread of anthrax at Babakan Madang village, Bogor, in West Java, where there has been an outbreak of anthrax, said Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto.
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The State Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.
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States that routinely deal with hurricanes and other natural disasters are better prepared than others to handle bioterrorism, but overall the nation is struggling to develop plans for public health emergencies.
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David Hose is a bioterrorism casualty. Little wonder, then, that his confidence in U.S. readiness for another such attack is about as low as his energy and as weak as his still-battered immune system, lingering after-effects of the anthrax he accidentally inhaled handling a letter addressed to Sen. Pat Leahy three years ago.