Bioterroric Attacks: A Case Study

Furthermore, there is not enough consideration to whether the public is willing to accept the risk of not securing LPHC targets. Public opinion has the power to sway policy making. However, the department has two critical analytic challenges and the first is prioritizing resources most effectively to prepare and prevent the hazards. This includes natural and technological hazards. The very nature of terrorism is a difficult hazard to properly characterize. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security must develop policies that help at the community and general pubic levels. In developing policies at the general public level evacuation plans will be in place to avert much of the panic (Eller, Gerber

According to the Texas Health Presbyterian Denton Emergency Operations plan their objective “is to maintain the continuity of patient care operations and meet the medical needs of our members and the community.” In order to accomplish this goal they assert that maintaining the safety and security of the organizations staff and volunteers is the top priority, as the safety of their staff ensures they will be able to accomplish their mission of providing care for patients, visitors, and the larger community. In addition to their primary goal, they have also identified a secondary objective of providing supplies and assistance to other Texas Health facilities.

The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The federal government passed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 and appropriated funds to develop the public health infrastructure. Since 2002, Dr.

The U.S. government takes any attack or threat very seriously. In cases such as this one the government would develop a plan of action to deal with the attacks and find the source to take down any further plans of attack. The government would investigate the background of the decreased perpetrators along with their involvement of homegrown terrorists inspired by al-Qaeda. The background will extend to others members they have been in communication with in the last few years. The government would want to investigate who gave the order for the attacks was it foreign influence or not. Furthermore, governments can “starve” terrorists out by making it extremely difficult to plan, plot, and carry out their attacks, and also by finding ways to gain

Communication is essential between health care facilities and the CDC. For example, the facilities experience an emergency and follow certain quarantine protocols and alert the local public health department and the CDC. The CDC organizes secure transmission tactics to merge and notify public health officials at local, state, and federal levels. The institute deploys scientific and logistical proficiency, personnel, and vital medical resources to the area of the emergency. The CDC (2012) explains the implementation of the essential medical assets for protection of communities in the state of an emergency:

Can pride and ambition excuse senseless murder? Recently, Macbeth ascended to the top of the hierarchy in just a short period of time. I suspect that his latest success is the result of dishonest methods employed to secure the throne. Rumors verify that Macbeth hosted Duncan in his residence at his time of death, met with instruments of supernatural forces, and lost all sanity during his banquet. I speculate that Macbeth and his wife hatched a plan to murder King Duncan to gain the power for themselves. Macbeth is guilty, and at the very least unfit to rule, because of his questionable ascension rise to the throne, information regarding Duncan’s death, and his inability to maintain mental stability.

Though the terrorist attacks of 9/11 shook the United States from some of its complacency, 11 years later, our public health system and the public/private health departments of the United States are still incapable of coping with a major bioterrorist attack. Our health care system was not designed to deal with bioterrorism, our medical personnel are not trained or experienced enough to deal with bioterrorism and we have not devoted enough political muscle and money to redesigning, re-educating and restructuring so the health departments can effectively deal with this very real menace. The solution is the devotion of all those assets to a new, empowered, well-funded, coordinated health departments comprising a highly effective public health system.

An interview with Lt. Colonel Jeff Daigle (a Military officer for almost 25 years) has opened some insight on some of the homegrown terrorism issues that occur. For example Narco Terrorism is a huge issue that allows drugs to be bought and that money then to be spent on guns for terroristic purposes. Groups like this aren’t the only home issue we have. “How does a person develop into a homegrown terrorist when countries like America are extremely privileged with things such as health care, food stamps, free education, etc.” That and with social media around you even if you are looking at ISIS propaganda there is American patriotism. In addition, he talks about racial profiling, which is something we do a lot. The American public talks

Domestic Terrorism can be described as many things. The FBI describes domestic terrorism as, “Perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.” People who commit domestic terrorism crimes often have different motives such as: religion, political, and even race. A specific case that resembles this, is the shooting in Las Vegas which occurred on June 8, 2014.

The War on Terror is a military campaign launched by the Bush administration in response to the al-Qaeda 9/11 terrorist attacks. The War on Terror includes The Afghanistan War and the War in Iraq. It added two-trillion dollars debt as the FY 2018 budget.

“Slavery, Gold Rush, what's next?!” Mom, dad, and I have never known what freedom is. We have been sent from slavery to the Gold Rush, my family has never been treated well. When we were slaves we worked for nine whole years, then we got sent to were the miners worked... It’s November 27, 1861, and the cold weather has already been really bad for everyone, especially miners.

The drawback of Estonia's information technology framework was that its defensive protocol was not much secure and could be easily hacked. Moreover, the country was much depended on internet.

As stated above any terror attack has a conventional force of motives and interest that put pressure towards committing such violent and inhuman acts; therefore, more strategies should be put in place to minimize and certainly do away with terrorism.

Biosurveillance is defined as “a process of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating essential information that might relate to disease activity and threats to human, animal, or plant health” (National Association of County & City Health Officials). Its activities range from standard epidemiological practices to advanced technological systems, utilizing complex algorithms. Its goal is to develop effective surveillance, prevention and operational capabilities for detecting and countering biological threats. Along with Biosurveillance, NIH has a basic research program for biodefense. BARDA has developed medications that may be critical in future responses to bioterrorism attacks. CDC has funded public health agencies to prepare for bioterrorism, and oversees laboratory research centered around this topic, manages a national stockpile of medications in case of an emergency, and has an Emergency Operations Center that is a model for other health agencies around the world. DHS has created a risk assessment and threat characterization process to help guide planning. FDA has created an office that deals explicitly with the regulation and approval of products to be used only in the event of bioterrorism, pandemics, or other urgencies or emergencies. The DOD and DOS have important programs dedicated to addressing the issue overseas through science and technology as well as cooperative threat reduction. (Tom Inglesby, Assessing the

Over the past few decades, the significance, magnitude and consequence of risk management and communication have been brought before the world over and over again in a number of situations related to health, terrorist activities, natural disasters etc. When one turns the pages of history, it is rather obvious that lack of planning and absence of resources due to unpreparedness makes it difficult for the concerned authorities to manage an emergency or epidemic a problematic and traumatic task. The chaotic situations can turn out to be more nerve-racking and tense when preparations are not made before hand (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2002).