. Biodefense Reference Library
             
            Resources for Strategic Planning & Project Development
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            The
Biodefense Reference Library is a collaborative initiative of
international
medical, veterinary and scientific experts to share information and
enhance
academic discussion of issues associated with preparedness, 
response,
mitigation and policy..
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            Contact:  
             
            Stephen
M. Apatow 
            Founder,
Director of Research & Development 
            Humanitarian
Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA) 
            Humanitarian University
Consortium Graduate Studies  
            Center
for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law 
            Phone:
            203-668-0282 
            Email:
            s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net 
            Internet:
            www.humanitarian.net 
             
            Pathobiologics
International 
            Internet:
            www.pathobiologics.org 
            
            In The Spotlight   
            
              - Biodefense
Threat Analysis Center: Pathobiologics International - An
international
reference point for biosecurity.
 
               
              -  Biodefense: Education resources target medical and
veterinary professionals worldwide: (HRI) - Humanitarian Resource
Institute
develops continuing education courses on both foreign animal  and
zoonotic diseases. 
 
              -  EHPNET: Humanitarian Resource Institute Emerging
Infectious Disease Network: Environmental Health Perspectives
(EHP), an online publication by the Public Health Service, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Volume
112, Number 1, January 2004.. 
 
              -  Mitigating a U.S. or International 
Agricultural
Incident: Expanding the discussion
of policy and regulatory options, to enhance cooperation, reduce
vulnerability, and modernize post-event recovery procedures.
 
             
            Outbreaks: In The News
            
            Also In The News:.
            
              -  Smallpox Discussion: Organ Transplants, Congenital
or
Acquired Immunodeficiencies, HIV: Contingency planning for a
potential
bioterrorist incident in the U.S. as well as African countries south of
the
Sahara, South or South-East Asia, Eastern Europe, Carribean or Latin
America. 
 
              -  2002: UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic Recovery:
In the light of the devastating agricultural, social and economic
losses
associated with the 2001 FMD epidemic, it is crucial that policy
directives
that address the scope of these challenging issues are available for
immediate
implementation.  See: United States FMD Vaccination Discussion:
Analysis of a Non-Vaccination Strategy Supplemented with Emergency
Vaccination 
 
              -  Agricultural Security: Veterinary and Scientific
Experts Outline Priority Issues: See: Humanitarian Resource
Institute Opens Tripartite 2000 Reports 
 
              -  Mental Health: Coping with a National Tragedy,
Chemical or Biological Terrorism: Whether it is a September 11,
influenza
or the the UK FMD crisis, this topic is of utmost importance.
 
             
            
            
            Discussion Papers 
            
            
            
            BioTerrorism
            
            JAMA: Consensus-based
recommendations for measures to be taken by medical and public health
professionals.
            
            Antibiotic
Guide: John Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases.
             
            
              Lectures 
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              General Information  
               
              
                -  Association for Infection
Control Practitioners 
 
                - CDC Health
Alerts,  Advisories, and Updates: Public Health Emergency
Preparedness & Response. 
 
                -  Centers for
Disease Control (CDC): Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal
                
 
                -  CDC: Special Issues, Dispatches, Commentary, Letters,
Book Review, News & Notes 
 
                -  CDC: National Center
for Infectious Diseases 
 
                -  CDC Travel Health 
National Center for Infectious Diseases. 
 
                -  Global
Emerging Infections System 
 
                -  Global
Outbreak Alert & Response Network: World
Health Organization. 
 
                -  International
Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM)  ISTM advocates and
facilitates education, service, and research activities in the field of
travel medicine. This includes: preventive and curative medicine within
many specialties such as tropical medicine, infectious diseases, high
altitude physiology, travel related obstetrics, psychiatry,
occupational health, military and migration medicine, and environmental
health. 
 
                -  GlobalHealth.gov:
Site developed U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to be a
portal of global health information for policymakers, researchers,
doctors, and the general public. 
 
                -  Ministries
of Health and National surveillance Institutes around the world
                
 
                -  National
Library of Medicine: Biological Warfare. The website offers
information
including incubation period, duration of illness, symptoms, means of
transmission, treatment, and prognosis for a comprehensive list of
biological warfare agents. 
 
                -  Textbook of Military Medicine: Medical Aspects
of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Office of the Surgeon General,
Department of the Army. 
 
                - U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases 
 
                -  United States
Geological Survey 
 
                -  World Health
Organization: Communicable Disease Surveilance and Response (CSR)
                
 
                -  World Health
Organization
(WHO):  Weekly Epidemiological Record
 
               
             
            
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