Reopening public facilities after a biological attack a decision making framework /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
c2005.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10160717 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 2001 attacks and cleanup
- Context of the study and charge to the Committee
- Content and structure
- Infectious disease threats
- Ability of microorganisms to infect people
- Infectious disease as a weapon
- Agents of concern to national security and public health
- Biological agents considered in this report
- Policy precedents in decontamination
- Microbial decontamination in food and water supplies
- Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories
- Environmental infection control in health care facilities
- Decontamination of U.S. Army Biological Warfare laboratories
- Development of Superfund and remediation plans
- Remediation experiences in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex
- Anthrax decontamination after the 2001 attacks: social and political context
- Uncertain science, certain social division
- Case study selection
- Framework for event management
- Hazard identification and assessment
- Identification of the agent
- Evaluating the state of the agent
- Evaluating the state of the contaminated building
- Factors influencing exposure to harmful biological agents in indoor environments
- Exposure
- Sources
- Building design and operations
- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems
- Transport and fate of harmful biological agents
- Deposition
- Resuspension
- Preparing and operating buildings for a bioterrorism attack and subsequent operation
- Analyzing health risks
- Assessment of risks posed by a biological hazard
- Dose-response: principles and uncertainties
- Sampling strategies and technologies
- Sampling and identification
- General sampling plan for quantifying the extent of cleanup
- Decontamination practices and principles
- Processes for decontamination of harmful biological agents and other response options
- Decontamination of harmful biological agents by chemical and physical methods
- Examples of decontamination: Hart Senate Office Building and American Media International Building
- Safe reoccupation of a facility
- Planning for biological agent attack
- Buildings declared contaminated
- Harmful biological agents in a public facility: the airport scenario
- Planning can make a major difference
- All findings and recommendations
- Other relevant case studies
- Were the 2001 anthrax exposures consistent with dose-response: the case of the AMI building.