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For Healthcare Providers and Laboratory Personnel:
Potential Bioterrorism Agents

• Anthrax information for healthcare providers or Anthrax Word version

• Anthrax information for laboratory personnel or Anthrax Word version
• Distinguishing influenza from inhalation anthrax from the CDC
• Botulism information for healthcare providers
• Plague information for healthcare providers
• Smallpox response plan and guidelines – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 2002
• Diagnosis of smallpox – World Health Organization, slide set for clinicians
• Evaluating patients for smallpox – poster from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for clinicians
• Smallpox vaccination guidance and recommendations – Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
• Tularemia information for healthcare providers

Web sites with additional resources:

• Laboratory Information – Testing for agents, biosafety, shipping of samples, communication related to bioterrorism from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Medical and public health management of biological agents – Journals of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• US Army Medical Research and Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID)
  • USAMRIID Home page
  • Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook
• Public Health Laboratories

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