As emergency managers many individuals in your
community are having concerns regarding the Ebola pandemic affecting West
Africa (WA), and with the recent transport of infected U.S. citizens
transported to the U.S. from the African continent.
In order to address the fear, and rumor control
of those returning individuals and the West African outbreak. Deadly diseases and infections are prevalent
in the U.S. and have infected groups within America, but in not as large a
number of individuals infected and unable to recover from infection in WA.
Annually public school districts, college and
university campuses in the U.S. and internationally address endemic virus and
bacterial outbreaks on their campuses and have plans to address these issues
and in some cases result in the closing of campuses after monitoring and
treatment of those infected is completed.
Pre-planning, preparation, and recovery planning
are key factors in addressing small, medium, and large numbers of infected
individuals within any community by public health, clinic, laboratory
detection, hospitals, and infection control organizations worldwide. Each entity working together to address local
and national public health issues.
1.
Rare Seawater ‘Flesh-Eating’ bacteria kills 35
a year.
2.
Flesh eating bacteria infects Washington, D.C.
area man.
Recommend a good visual ‘Hollywood’ film from
the 1950’s.
-Panic
in the Street (1950).
A doctor and
a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with
pneumonic plague
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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past
and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” ―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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