(P2-2) Suicide Attack Response Considerations for First Responders

The CODE RED Solution: biothreat response training for first responders.

The terrorist events of 2001 brought to light the need for a close working relationship between the first responder communities and the public health laboratories in New York State (NYS). Since 2002, the Wadsworth Center's Biodefense Laboratory (BDL) has been providing outreach training to first responders in New York, to enable them to respond safely, correctly, and confidently to biothreat ev...

Food Safety for First Responders

508 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 3, March 2005 person-years) is substantially higher than the findings of Nennig and others (10) among an urban population in San Francisco (176 cases per 100,000 person-years). This finding may be due to the difference in immunization practices between Israel and the United States (5 doses of DTP vaccine in the United States with...

Resilience among first responders.

BACKGROUND Emergency rescue personnel can be considered a "high risk" occupational group in that they could experience a broad range of health and mental health consequences as a result of work-related exposures to critical incidents. OBJECTIVES This study examined the resilience factors that protect mental health among first responders. METHODS Nine hundred and sixty-one first responders f...

Secure Group Communication for First Responders

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a secure groupware for first responders, called SGFR, that is capable of secure group chat, remote file download and remote display control. It integrated Jabber instant messaging system and Keystone group rekeying system. Users are authenticated through the use of digital certificates. Group key are issued when members are joined or le...

VoiceLETS backs up first responders