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Workshop on Bio-terrorism Cambrai-France / December 2002

Join Dr. Guy MALGRAS from the French Home Office, as we tackle detection issues, attack diversity, epidemic kinetics, and crisis management in bio-terrorism. Discuss recommendations to enhance collaboration and training in this crucial field.

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Workshop on Bio-terrorism Cambrai-France / December 2002

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  1. Workshop on Bio-terrorismCambrai-France / December 2002 Speaker : Guy MALGRAS, Doctor, Advisor at the Director of Civil Protection and Defence. French Home Office

  2. During this workshop, the following issues have been identified : Ø Detection problems : the identification of a biological agent can take many days Ø The great diversity of the attacks : micro-organisms (bacteries), toxins, that can affect human beings but also animals, plants and the food chain

  3. Ø The particular kinetics of an epidemic that starts slowly and increases in an exponential way, which is different of the chemical field where the number of victims is immediately maximum and decreases rapidly Ø It has been insisted on the essential need to collaborate in the research field, and in conceiving and improving the plans in order to avoid the problems that arise from mananaging an anthrax “crisis”

  4. Ø There is a lack of training of doctors, and a lack of laboratories to identify germs (only one P4 laboratory in France)Recommandations have been made to share the resources at european level Ø Therefore, the biological risk must first be defined, and a crisis management course must be created in order to train authorities but also the concerned citizen (on evacuation and sheltering measures), build up scenarios and carry out exercises in order to verify and experiment the different plans

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