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Appendix B: Glossary
Pages 193-198

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... BAR false positive: Declaration of a BAR when a bioterrorist attack has not occurred. Biodefense: Procedures involved in taking defensive measures against at tacks using biological agents.
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From page 194...
... Detector: A data collection and processing technology that both collects and evaluates data. Environmental sampling: In the context of the BioWatch system, physical sampling of the environment where a BAR was declared to provide decision makers with a more accurate situational assessment of a BAR and to inform appropriate public health response action.
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... : A national network of local, state, and federal public health, health care, food, agriculture, veterinary, and environmental testing laboratories that provide the laboratory infra structure and capacity to respond to biological and chemical terrorism and other public health emergencies. Lidar: The word comes from the acronym for light detection and ranging.
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... Public health and medical preparedness: The existence of plans, procedures, policies, training, and equipment necessary to maximize the ability to prevent, respond to, and recover from major events, including efforts that result in the capability to render an appropriate public health and medical response that will mitigate the effects of illness and injury, limit morbidity and mortality to the maximum extent possible, and sustain societal, economic, and political infrastructure. Public health surveillance: Ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data essential to the planning, imple mentation, and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those responsible for prevention and control.
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... government agencies to characterize the maturity of evolving technologies before incorporating that technology into a system or subsystem.
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  • appropriate public
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  • air samplers
  • bioterrorist attack
  • situational awareness
  • disease events
  • health agency

  • biowatch actionable
  • lidars transmit
  • genetic signature
  • laboratory response
  • health education

  • health events
  • detect changes
  • acid signature
  • disease outbreak
  • taking defensive

  • harmful agents
  • human disease
  • confirmed presence
  • response action
  • disease activity

  • produce death
  • overall health
  • systematic collection
  • molecular genetics
  • biowatch sampler


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