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Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management

Elias Abrutyn, MD

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Henderson DA, Inglesby TV, O'Toole T, eds. 244 pages. Chicago: American Medical Assoc; 2002. $29.95. ISBN 157947280X. Order phone 800-621-8335 or at http://www.amapress.com.
Field of medicine: Infectious diseases, microbiology, and public health.
Format: Softcover book.
Audience: Primary care physicians, emergency medicine personnel, infectious diseases physicians, medical microbiologists, hospital epidemiologists, infection control practitioners, public health officials, and lawyers addressing public health issues.
Purpose: To guide medical and public health efforts following a biological weapons attack on civilian populations.
Content: Before the anthrax attacks of 2001, the Working Group on Bioterrorism published widely read consensus statements on the medical and public health aspects of the biological weapons likely to cause the greatest disruption, illness, and death—anthrax, smallpox, botulism, plague, tularemia, and viruses causing viral hemorrhagic fever. This book provides a useful compilation of those statements (each has been updated to integrate information published after its initial release). In addition, five cases from the anthrax attacks of 2001 are described, and there is a thoughtful discussion of the utility, feasibility, ethics, and legality of one often-discussed public health measure, large-scale quarantine. Other chapters address the importance of understanding biological weapons and the new challenges posed by bioterrorism for U.S. medicine.
Highlights: The consensus statements are excellent, readable summaries of the existing literature that clearly delineate what we know and what we need to know. They are of value to experts and to those seeking information about these subjects for the first time. The individual case descriptions are poignant and communicate the complexity...
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Abrutyn E. Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management. Ann Intern Med. 2002;137:938. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-137-11-200212030-00023

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2002;137(11):938.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-137-11-200212030-00023

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