Outbreaks and Incidents

Items

• Federal.  The U.S. Defense Department's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).   A legal guidebook for dealing with the various aspects of mass destruction incidents and emergencies.
  (PDF File)
  (Posted: 03/01/2004 3:00 PM)
  
  
• "Forensic Epidemiology: Law at the Intersection of Public Health and Criminal Investigation", Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 31, 684-700 (2003), Richard A. Goodman, et al.
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• "The Evolving Role of Public Health Law in Containing Infectious Disease"   A presentation by Anne Murphy, Chief Counsel, Illinois Department of Public Health, given to the 2004 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, on March 3, 2004 in Atlanta.
  (PowerPoint file)
  (Posted: 03/04/2004 12:00 AM)
  
  
• Alaska.    A Flow Chart of the Alaska Public Health Emergency Response.
  (PDF file)
  (Posted: 01/21/2004 1:30:00 PM)
  
  
• California. Vignettes concerning an avian influenza pandemic developed in January 2006 by Peter Baldridge, Senior Staff Counsel at the California Department of Health Services. The vignettes are intended to train users to describe communicable disease scenarios that are disruptive to safe court operations, identify health benefits of various precaution methods (e.g., quarantine vs. isolation of exposed and ill persons, respectively), and define factors that result in infectious disease transmission.
  (Word file).
  (Posted: 04/11/2006)
  
  
• Washington.   A memorandum describing the legal authorities for various governmental entities to respond in a serious public health emergency.  Prepared by the Senior Assistant Attorney General, Agriculture & Health Division, January 31, 2002.
  (Word file).
  (Posted: 08/12/2004)