USAMRIID Diseases

In March of 2000, a microbiologist working with infectious diseases in a Biosafety Level 3 facility at USAMRIID contacted glanders due to accidental exposure. Between 1987 and 1990, two other workers acquired infectious diseases at the same facility. 

April of2002, a researcher at U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) tested positive for exposure to anthrax spores, which were also released in small quantities into an adjacent hallway and office. 

Drugs There is an antitoxin stored at the CDC. To arrange to use this antitoxin, call your state health department (or CDC at 404-639-2206 or 404-639-3753 workdays, or call weekends or evenings at 404-639-2888). This chemotherapy (antitoxin) available from CDC is a licensed trivalent equine antitoxin for serotypes A, B, and E. There is no reversal of botulism disease with this drug, but the antitoxin does usually prevent further nerve damage. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has a heptavalent equine despeciated antitoxin for serotypes A - G (IND). DOD also has pentavalent toxoid (vaccine) for serotypes A - E (IND). The currently recommended schedule is for use at zero, two, and twelve weeks with a one year booster. This vaccine is supposed to induce solidly protective antitoxin levels in greater that 90 percent of those vaccinated after one year. Contact USAMRIID, (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases), Fort Detrick, Maryland. Tel. 301-619-2833. 

Information about clinical diagnosis and management can be found elsewhere.1-9 Additional information about responding to bioterrorism is available from CDC at http // www.bt.cdc.gov the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at http // www.usamriid.army.mil/education/bluebook.html the Association for Infection Control Practitioners at http //www.apic.org and the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense at http //www.hopkins-biodefense.org. 

Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) (USAMRIID. Blue Book. 6ih eel. Fori Dehick, MD April 2005.)... 

U.S. Army Medicai Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. (2005). USAMRIID s Medical management of biological casualties handbook (6th ed.). Frederick, MD Author. 

Epidemiological Clues to a Biological Event. With awareness of the baseline data for their practice setting, nurses should be alert for unusual patterns of disease or health-related indicators. Representative examples of unusual patterns of diseases that might suggest a deliberate bioterrorist act are presented in Table 22.1 (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USAMRIID], 2005 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2001). 

UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL DEFENSE http //chemdef.apgea.army.mil UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES (USAMRIID) http //WWW. usamriid. army, mil UNITED STATES ARMY NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU http //www.ngb. army, mil... 

USAMRIID U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases... 

E. USAMRIID - CONUS assistance in specimen collection and analysis. Expertise in disease pathogenesis and treatment. 

Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) BC Army 8-10... 

Ground was broken in 1967 for construction of a new, modern laboratory building at Fort Detrick. The building would open in phases during 1971 and 1972. With the disestablishment of the biological warfare laboratories, the name of the U.S. Army Medical Unit, which was to have been housed in the new laboratories, was formally changed to U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in 1969. The institute s new mission was stated in General Order 137, 10 November 1971 (since superseded) ... 

ISOLATION PROCEDURES FOR PATIENT CARE AT USAMRIID, BY DISEASE AGENT OR TYPE OF EXPOSURE... 

Wannemacher RW Jr, Pace JG. Medical defense against biological warfare Exploratory immunotherapy studies on toxins of potential BW threat. In US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Annual Report 1987. Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md USAMRIID 1987 129-135. 

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