Public Law No. 106-505
Passed: November 13, 2000
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Public Health Improvement Act
- December 13, 2010
- | Filed under North America, Law, and 2001-2025
Public Health Preparedness: Developing and Acquiring Medical Countermeasures Against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Agents
“The anthrax attacks of 20001 and a radiation leak after the recent natural disaster of Japan highlighted concerns that the United States is vulnerable to threats from chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents, which can cause widespread illness and death. GAO was asked to testify on the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) CBRN medical countermeasure development and acquisition activities on …how HHS determines needed CBRN medical countermeasures and priorities for development and acquisition and selected agents to medical countermeasure development and acquisition.”
- June 21, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons (2nd ed.)
“The message contained in this publication is clear: countries need a public health system that can respond to the deliberate release of chemical and biological agents. Regrettable though this message may be, the use of poison gas in the war between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s, the recent anthrax incidents in the United States, and the attack with sarin nerve agent, six years earlier, on the Tokyo underground, illustrate why it is necessary to prepare.
Recognizing this need, the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly in May 2002 adopted resolution WHA55.16 calling on Member States to “treat any deliberate use, including local, of biological and chemical agents and radionuclear attack to cause harm also as a global public health threat, and to respond to such a threat in other countries by sharing expertise, supplies and resources in order rapidly to contain the event and mitigate its effects.” This is but the first step. The need has been identified.What is now required are national and international procedures to meet it, suitably resourced. This manual describes these procedures.”
- April 7, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Other, and 2001-2025
Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act
Public Law No. 107-188
Passed: June 12, 2002
- December 13, 2010
- | Filed under North America, Law, and 2001-2025
Ready or Not 2010
In the eighth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism Report, 14 states scored nine or higher on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness. The scores reflect nearly ten years of progress to improve how the nation prevents, identifies, and contains new disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats and responds to the aftermath of natural disasters in the wake of the September 11, 2001 and anthrax tragedies.
- December 14, 2010
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
