MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL

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Subject: MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL             

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          examinations of suspected anthrax, plague, and tularemia
          victims should be performed with strict mask, gown, and glove
          precautions because of the large numbers of organisms present
          in body fluids.

            Prophylaxis and Therapy: All medical prophylactic
          modalities described should be viewed only as secondary (i.e.,
          backup), and are not to be relied upon as primary protective
          measures. Agent exposures near the source of dissemination
          will be high, and likely to overwhelm any medical protective
          measure. The precise efficacy of available medical
          countermeasures has, of course, never been evaluated in actual
          field circumstances, but is largely inferred from laboratory
          studies on nonhuman primates. while these extrapolations may
          be inexact, they strongly support the efficacy of vaccines and
          drugs at some agent dose.



            outlined in Section 11 is an assessment of our current
          capability to respond to several of the biological agents. A
          common format is used to enable rapid consolidation of
          capabilities by response area (e.g., specific laboratory
          diagnosis, therapy, prophylaxis). Section III provides a
          review of clinical features distinguishing chemical
          neurointoxications from botulism.
























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