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Recommendations and Reports, (January 14, 2005)
Prepared by: Martin G. Belson, MD, Joshua G. Schier, MD, Manish M. Patel, MD Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health

(March 19, 2004)
This primer is provided as a quick reference in the event of a radiation disaster. It summarizes current information on preparing for a radiation emergency, handling contaminated persons, dose assessment, and radiation exposure health effects.

CDC: Ricin Clinician Briefing (January 27, 2004)

(September 2003)

(December 4, 2003)

(November 7, 2001)
By the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention

(October 26, 2001)
Includes information on the susceptibility of testing B. anthracis isolates, managing threats, handling of suspicious packages or envelopes, managing exposures, antimicrobial treatment, inhalational anthrax treatment protocol and the cutaneous anthrax treatment protocol.

By the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Fourth Edition. Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland. (February 2001)
Handbook includes a glossary of medical terms; instructions on patient isolation precautions; and differential diagnosis and comparative lethality of toxins versus nerve agents

By the Military Medical Operations Office, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. (December 1999)
Handbook includes management protocol for acute radiation syndrome; biological and psychological effects of radiation expsoure; decontamination protocols; and information on the medical assay of the radiological patient.

By the Office of The Surgeon General at TMM Publications, Borden Institute, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1997)
Online medical textbook.

Disease/agent specific information pertaining to two basic categories: biological agents/diseases and chemical agents

By the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

JAMA Articles

By Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections, Saint Louis University, School of Public Health
Bioterrorism agent specific fact sheets for clinical settings.

By Mark G. Kortepeter and Gerald W. Parker, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Emerging Infections Diseases Vol. 5 No. 4 (July-August 1999)
The list of agents that could pose the greatest public health risk in the event of a bioterrorist attack is short. However, although short, the list includes agents that, if acquired and properly disseminated, could cause a difficult public health challenge in terms of our ability to limit the numbers of casualties and control the damage to our cities and nation.