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What if a Bioterrorist Attack Occurs?-A Survey on Citizen Preparedness in Aveiro, Portugal
Contributor(s):: Santos, Helena, Pinto, Maria de Lurdes, Cardoso, Luis, Rodrigues, Isilda, Coelho, Ana Claudia
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Veterinary Public Health Collaborations: An Essential Component of Future Public Health Preparedness
Contributor(s):: Bryan C. Gooding
Veterinarians protect the public's health by serving in multiple roles as epidemiologists, food inspectors, and veterinary medical officers in local, state, federal, and military organizations. One of the more prominent roles that veterinarians play in the public health arena is preventing...
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Introduction to working with animal assisted crisis response animal handler teams
Contributor(s):: Greenbaum, Susan D.
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The impact of epizootics on livelihoods
Contributor(s):: Heath, S. E.
Epizootics (nonhuman animal disease epidemics) can have detrimental impacts on livelihoods through a complex interaction of demographic trends, food production, and animal disease. Differences in the rate of demographic shifts, including rates of population growth, economic growth, urbanization,...
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Guided
Contributor(s):: Hingson, Michael
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Field treatment of search dogs: lessons learned from the World Trade Center disaster
| Contributor(s):: Otto, C. M., Franz, M. A., Kellogg, B., Lewis, R., Murphy, L., Lauber, G.
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The day that changed everything
| Contributor(s):: Speier, Andy
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Development of a national companion animal syndromic surveillance system for bioterrorism
| Contributor(s):: Moore, G. E., Ward, M. P., Dhariwal, J., Wu, C. C., Glickman, N. W., Lewis, H. B., Glickman, L. T.
A companion animal syndromic surveillance system has been established at Purdue University to augment national U.S. efforts in bioterrorism detection. This system analyses electronic data from a veterinary practice with 360 hospitals in 42 states. Using syndromic definitions for clinical disease...
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Psychological impact of the animal-human bond in disaster preparedness and response
| Contributor(s):: Hall, M. J., Ng, A., Ursano, R. J., Holloway, H., Fullerton, C., Casper, J.
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Challenges to military working dog management and care in the Kuwait theater of operation
| Contributor(s):: Toffoli, C. A., Rolfe, D. S.
In a combat environment, troop safety and installation security are paramount. Documentation of the frequent use of explosive devices by insurgents in Southwest Asia has increased the need for augmentation of defensive capabilities. Military working dogs (MWDs) are trained and certified to...
