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Title: Annual Review : Prepare Your Family and Home For a Bioterrorist Attack


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Annual Review Prepare Your Family and Home For
a Bioterrorist Attack
  • Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious
  • Disease Preparedness
  • College of Nursing
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

This module is funded in part by USDHHS, HRSA
Grant No. TO1HP01407.
2
How Can You Help Stop Terrorists?
LOOK AND LISTEN. Here are some things to
watch for
  • Bags left unattended in public places
  • People checking areas or buildings
  • People trying to enter secure areas
  • People at events wearing too much clothing

IF YOU SEE ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY,
CALL 1-866-4-SAFE-NJ
3
The Homeland Security Advisory System
  • Provides warnings of risk of terrorist activity
    through a set of five color-coded threat
    conditions. Below are steps you need to take to
    protect your family and home at each threat level.

4
The Homeland Security Advisory System - Threat
Conditions
  • SEVERE RISKObey directions by authorities and
    prepare to evacuate, if instructed. Be alert for
    emergency messages
  • HIGH RISKReview communication plan with family
    and monitor the news for further directions
  • ELEVATEDDevelop other travel routes between
    home, work and school. Prepare to assist elderly
    and those with special needs
  • GUARDEDBe alert for and report suspicious
    activity. Review your disaster supply kit and
    replace outdated items.
  • LOWDevelop a family emergency communications
    plan and stock a disaster supplies kit.

5
Create A Family Emergency Communications Plan
  • Local phone lines may not be working, so choose
    an out-of-town person your family can call to
    check on each other be sure everyone knows the
    contact number(s) to call for kids how to call
    collect
  • Set a meeting place away from home if your home
    is in disaster area or if the area is being
    evacuated
  • Know your childrens school emergency plan and
    coordinate with it. Make sure school has your
    emergency contact information.
  • Post a copy of this information next to
    your telephone, in your kitchen or some other
    obvious place in your home.

6
Collect Contents For A Disaster Supplies Kit
  • 3 day water supply 1 gallon per person per day
  • 3 day food supply per person that wont spoil.
    Examples - canned meats, protein or fruit bars,
    dry cereal or granola, dried fruit, nuts.
    crackers, canned juice, non-perishable
    pasteurized milk
  • Food and water for pets
  • Hand can opener, knives, forks, spoons
  • Prescriptions, first aid kit include 2 pair
    latex or other sterile gloves if allergic to
    latex, sterile dressings to stop bleeding,
    antibiotic ointment, burn ointment, eye wash
    solution, thermometer, prescription medication,
    non-prescription medication such as aspirin,
    non-aspirin pain reliever, anti-diarrhea
    medication, antacid, and a laxative, prescribed
    medical supplies such as glucose monitor, blood
    pressure kit and a first aid manual
  • KEEP DISASTER KIT IN LARGE PLASTIC BARREL WITH
    COVER

7
Collect Contents For A Disaster Supplies Kit
  • Paper towels, diapers, toilet paper, garbage bags
  • Personal care soap, shampoo, toothpaste,
    disinfectant (bleach)
  • One blanket, clothing change, footwear per person
  • Extra pairs of glasses and/or contact lenses
  • Extra set of keys, a credit card, cash or
    travelers checks
  • Flashlight and extra batteries
  • Battery-powered radio and extra batteries
  • Matches in a waterproof container
  • Important papers like birth certificates in
    waterproof wrap, insurance policies,
    identification, bank accounts
  • KEEP DISASTER KIT IN LARGE PLASTIC BARREL WITH
    COVER

8
Collect Contents For A Disaster Supplies Kit
  • Other necessary supplies Whistle- to call for
    help, dust mask or cotton tee-shirt to filter the
    air, moist towelettes, wrench or pliers to turn
    off utilities, garbage bags for personal
    sanitation, bleach as a disinfectant (dilute
    nine parts water to one part bleach)
  • In an emergency use bleach to purify water Use
    16 drops of regular household bleach per gallon
    of water. DO NOT USE SCENTED,COLOR SAFE OR
    BLEACHERS WITH ADDED CLEANERS.
  • Special family needs
  • Babies Formula,- Diapers, Bottles,
    Powdered milk, medications, moist towelletes,
    Diaper rash ointment.
  • Adults and Seniors Denture needs, -Extra
    batteries for hearing aid, a list of the style
    and serial numbers of medical devices such as
    pacemakers, a l ist of doctors and emergency
    contacts.

9
Collect Contents For A Disaster Supplies Kit
  • People with Disabilities Create a support
    network and give one member a key to your home.
  • Contact your city or county governments
    emergency information management office. (Many
    local offices keep lists of people with
    disabilities so they can be located quickly.)
  • Wear medical a alert tag or bracelet to
    identify your disability.
  • If dependant on dialysis or other life
    sustaining treatment, know where there is more
    than one facility in your area that can provide
    treatment.
  • Teach the other members how to operate
    your wheelchair and know the size and weight of
    your wheelchair collapsible or not.

10
Biological, Chemical Or Nuclear Attacks
  • In case of an attack
  • Listen to the radio or TV for instructions on how
    you should respond
  • You may be told to leave the area, to seek
    shelter in a specific location or to take shelter
    where you are and seal the premises

11
Decontamination
  • If you are exposed to contamination seek
    professional help if it is available. If help is
    not available, decontaminate yourself by
    following these rules
  • Remove all clothing and items in contact with the
    body.
  • Cut clothing off do not pull clothing over
    head.
  • Place removed clothing in a plastic bag and seal
    tightly.
  • Remove eyeglasses. Place in a solution of 1 part
    bleach to 10 parts water for 5 minutes. Rinse
    with clear water. Dispose of contact lenses.
  • Flush eyes with lots of water.
  • Gently wash face and hair with soap and rinse
    thoroughly.
  • Gently wash other parts of body that have been
    exposed in soapy water. Do not scrub or scrape
    harshly. Rinse with clear water.
  • Change into clean clothes that have been in a
    drawer/closet and not been exposed to
    contamination.

12
Biological and Chemical Attacks
  • Biological weapons, like anthrax or smallpox, can
    cause illness or death. If you become aware of an
    unusual or suspicious substances nearby
  • Quickly move away
  • Protect yourself cover mouth and nose with layers
    if fabric that can filter the air but still allow
    breathing.
  • If your symptoms match those described and you
    are in the group considered at risk immediately
    seek emergency medical attention. If you become
    aware of an unusual or suspicious substances
    nearby
  • Chemical agents are poisonous and have deadly
    effects on people.
  • Possible signs of Chemical Attack
  • Many people suffering from watery eyes,
    twitching ,choking, having trouble breathing or
    losing coordination
  • Many sick or dead birds, fish or small animals
    are also cause for suspicion

13
Biological and Chemical Attacks
  • In case of an attack you should
  • If caught outside, get indoors as quickly as
    possible. Try to get up wind of the polluted area
    so that the wind is blowing the pollution away
    from you.
  • If told to stay indoors where you are, go to an
    internal room without windows if possible. Shut
    off ventilation including furnace, air
    conditioners and fans. Remain in room and listen
    to the radio or TV for further instructions.

14
Radioactive And Nuclear Terrorism
  • An attack on a nuclear power plant or the use of
    a small nuclear weapon is possible.
  • Terrorists may set off a dirty bomb that
    contains radioactive material.
  • All of these produce dangerous contaminated
    fallout.
  • Three principles to protect yourself
  • Shielding put heavy dense material between you
    and the fallout, for example, thick walls,
    bricks, earth. A basement is better protection
    that an upper floor area.
  • Distance get as far away from the blast as
    quickly as possible.
  • Time radiation fallout is the greatest threat
    the first two weeks after the attack. After
    that, the threat is greatly reduced.

15
Radioactive And Nuclear Terrorism
  • Additional Information
  • close windows and doors, turn off air
    conditioners, heaters or other ventilation
    systems.
  • If there is a significant radiation threat,
    health care authorities may or may not advise you
    to take potassium iodide. Potassium iodide is the
    ingredient added to table salt to make it
    iodized. It may or may not protect your thyroid
    gland, which is vulnerable, from radioactive
    iodine exposure. Plan to speak with your health
    care provider in advance about what makes sense
    to your family.
  • Radiation Threat or Dirty Bomb
  • If you have been exposed to radiation, take off
    your clothes and wash as soon as possible.
  • READY.GOVINFO.
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