IP: Tactics readied for a smallpox fight

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
>
> Tactics readied for a smallpox fight
>
> Specialists ponder outbreak scenario
>
> By John Donnelly, Globe Staff, 11/8/2001
>
> ATLANTA - Twenty-three years after the last case of smallpox, many of
> the specialists who helped eradicate the disease met privately
> yesterday to grapple with how they would fight a new outbreak,
> unleashed by a terrorist.
>
> The eradication of smallpox is held up by many to be one of the
> greatest achievements of public health in modern times, but these
> legends of public health told nearly 100 health specialists that all
> of their painstaking work could come undone in an instant if some of
> the weaponized smallpox stocks from the former Soviet Union slipped
> into the wrong hands.
>
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release the full
> details of its plan for responding to a smallpox outbreak in two or
> three weeks, after the participants this week and local and state
> public health officials have a chance to review the arrangements. But
> the broad outline unfolded yesterday in a meeting a Globe reporter
> was allowed to attend.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/312/nation/Tactics_readied_for_a_smallpox_fight+.shtml


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