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The Smallpox Vaccination Program: Public Health in an Age of Terrorism
Alexander, E. Russell, 343
“All-hazards” approach, 56 , 292 n
American Academy of Family Physicians, 89
American Accreditation HealthCare Commission, 218
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), 52
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 52
American Hospital Association (AHA), 52
American Medical Association, 218
American Medical Group Association, 217
American Nurses Association (ANA), 52
American Public Health Association, 24 , 52 , 89 , 305
ANA. See American Nurses Association
Announcement, of the smallpox vaccination program, 41–42
Anthrax bioterrorism attacks within the U.S., xv , 23 , 305
Antiviral agents, need for development of, 11
Antiviral T-cell response, 14
Areas of potential future inquiry, 158–159
Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Variola Virus , 11
Assessment of safety profile, 142–149
Association of Federal, State, County, and Municipal Employees, 52
Association of Professionals in Infection Control, 218
Association of Public Health Laboratories, 24
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), 24 , 49 , 51 , 54 , 83 , 86 , 91 , 94 , 98 , 100 , 197 , 236 n
ASTHO. See Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Atlanta, Georgia, official repository for live variola virus, 11
Authority.
See also Responsibility
CDC needing to speak with, 82–83 , 89 , 95–96 , 101 , 114 , 155 , 209–210
for decision-making, clear lines of, 257 , 299
documentation of, 278
Availability
of compensation, notification about, 189–190
of vaccinations for the general public, 31 , 33
of vaccine supplies in the United States, 15–16
Aventis Pasteur vaccine, 15 , 17
B
Background rates, of conditions that could be confused with adverse reactions, 146–147
Bangladesh, smallpox in, 18
Baxter Healthcare Corp., 16
Bayer, Ronald, 344
Bifurcated needle
call for a safer, 52
inoculation using, 14
invention of, 10
Biopreparedness, 65 , 97 .
See also Bioterrorism, preparing for
money spent on, 43 , 260
Bioterrorism.
See also Biopreparedness agents that could be used in, 205
contrasting roles of public health and traditional responders in, 291
funding for, 33–34
grants for, 87
media role in, 218
only one public health threat, 268
possibility of future, 23
preparing for, 34–35 , 81 , 172–174 , 217 , 266
response competencies, 281
university-based centers for studying, 218
Blood donation forms, 141
Bush, George W., xv , 9 , 26 , 41 , 52 , 84 , 124–125 , 137 , 222
C
Cardiac adverse events, 40 , 46–48 , 90
Cardiac disease, basic pathophysiology of, 236
Cardiomyopathy, 229
dilated, 241
Category A pathogens, 23
CDC. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC-American Medical Association First National Congress on Public Health Readiness, 99
CDC Clinician Information Line, 176 , 178 , 180 , 230
CDC/Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidance, 211 , 214–215 , 281