Model emergency response planning for infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorist events. [text].

Section one : Emergency response communications planning -- Situation and assumptions -- Operational guidelines -- Organization and assignment of resposibilities -- Evaluation and logistics -- Plan development and maintenance -- Authorities and reference -- Appendices -- Section two : Infectious disease fact sheets -- Infectious disease fact sheets index -- Introduction : Addressing infectious disease threats.

"While state and federal agencies have deemed public health preparedness to respond to infectious disease and bioterrorism threats essential to safeguard the United States's well-being, the resources needed to support such planning efforts have not always been available. Recent event, however, have yielded compelling arguments to commit the resources necessary to develop and maintain strong public health infrastructures with systems prepared to respond immediately to biologic and chemical attacks that threaten the public health. ASTDHPPHE and its partners hope that th einformation provided in this document will advance that goal." -- p. vii