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2 A Brief Overview of Health Security Threats and Programs
Pages 3-10

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... attack is ever present, with sarin and chlorine gas used in terrorist attacks against civilians on a large scale. Inglesby remarked that natural, manmade, and technological disasters pose a serious threat to the nation's aging, and sometimes archaic, health care and public health infrastructures, as does the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
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... Mega-disasters are so catastrophically eventful that they overwhelm local and regional capacities to really respond and mitigate their effects. He provided a set of defining criteria for megadisasters, in descending order of priority: inability to manage immediate rescue of endangered survivors, significant backlog of victims unable to get appropriate medical care or other essential support, inability to protect vital infrastructure or prevent significant property destruction, and any level of societal breakdown or disorder.
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... . The United States relies on state and local public health officials for top-level scientific analysis and expertise on infectious diseases, surveillance programs and warning of new outbreaks, laboratory testing and safety, communicating risks to the public, medicine stockpiles, and community response programs, among others.
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... This recent score demonstrates that although there is capacity in the system, there is plenty of room for improvement. Despite its crucial role, public health is chronically underfunded and lacks the resources for people and technology necessary to succeed, Inglesby remarked.
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... Program; DHS's Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration Center and BioWatch; the National Disaster Medical System; CDC's Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Program; FDA; NIH; DoD; the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)
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... Other duties required by ASPR include providing personnel, countermeasures, coordination, and logistics surrounding disaster response. HHS leads federal public health
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... Department of Health and Human Services; NIH = National Institutes of Health; PHEMCE = Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise; USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture; VA = U.S.
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... . Jean Hu-Primmer, senior advisor, CBRN and Pandemic Influenza, FDA, explained that the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE)


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