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To: SoFloFreeper
This is stupid. Almost every state has a CBRNE (formerly NBC) "strike team"....called a CST. Our Guard unit, the 61st CST regularly trains in Chemical and Biowarefare recon, assessment, ID, aid, and decon. Civil Support Team

I am confident that they can set up a perimeter, render initial aid, process the contacts, isolate the patient, decontaminate, and if needed, enforce quarantine .

19 posted on 10/20/2014 6:42:07 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: DCBryan1

Good post.

By the way, this reaction team isn’t totally new either, it is similar to the Aeromedical Isolation Team that was disbanded in 2010.

It seems that we do have some resources, but that they have been so shelved and ignored that they are covered with cobwebs and probably (evidently?) not ready for primetime.

I hope that this Ebola event is enough to get us to start treating these precautions and preparations as important enough to maintain in a more ready status than as just something on paper.


27 posted on 10/20/2014 8:26:41 AM PDT by ansel12 ( LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nationÂ’s electorate for democrats)
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