NORTHCOM Prepares for Possible PandemicBy Sgt. 1st Class Gail Braymen, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service |
| PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, "We're building the knowledge base, trying to get ahead of the curve now as much as we can," said Gene Pino, director of NORTHCOM's training and exercise directorate. "We're here to explore (and) identify issues, identify challenges and identify concerns from each of our particular perspectives." Officials consider a pandemic - a global epidemic - a possibility due to increasing numbers of people around the world contracting a life-threatening flu virus from birds. So far, humans infected with the avian flu virus have been verified in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Turkey and, most recently, Iraq. However, no cases of human-to-human transmission have been confirmed, and no cases of avian flu, in birds or in humans, have been reported in the United States or Canada. The avian flu does not represent a widespread danger to human populations until the virus mutates into a strain that spreads from person to person, experts said. Well before news headlines started reporting growing numbers of both sick birds and sick people, U.S. and Canadian military officials decided to focus joint exercise efforts on the pandemic influenza scenario. "Since that time, a tremendous amount of energy has been expended to prepare for the eventuality that this is a very plausible and a very dangerous threat," Pino said. Exercise attendees analyzed topics such as public health care, maintaining civil order and providing continuity of government and private operations in case of widespread infection and worker absenteeism. "NORTHCOM will not be running the show in the event of a pandemic," said Dave Wilkins, the NORTHCOM exercise facilitator. "We will be taking guidance and requests from other agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security, via the secretary of defense." One most critical NORTHCOM mission during a possible pandemic is to keep the American public informed. The command will work with the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies at federal, state and local levels and will use a variety of methods, including traditional press releases and the agency's public Web site, to disseminate information, said Michael Perini, director of NORTHCOM public affairs. "Staying informed is really the best preparation," Perini said. "What we want to do here is to be an integral part of the overall communications process and keep people informed so that they can be prepared." Exercise participants agreed that the United States will not be able to keep an influenza pandemic from entering the country. Instead, the common goal of all agencies represented is to contain and mitigate the consequences of a pandemic as much as possible. "We know it will have an impact," said Army Col. Joe Bassani, chief of the plans division in NORTHCOM's policy and planning directorate. "We can't stop the pandemic from having an impact. What we are concerned about is what the long-term impact is going to be on the homeland and what U.S. NORTHCOM can do to assist civil authorities in limiting that long-term impact." The last influenza pandemics to strike the United States were in the 1960s, 1950s and 1910s. The most severe pandemic, in 1918-1919, caused at least 500,000 deaths in the United States and as many as 40 million deaths worldwide. But "unlike previous pandemic influenzas, this will be the first time in the history of humanity that we actually have an opportunity to plan in advance how we would respond to a global pandemic," said Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Dan Bochicchio, vice chief surgeon of the National Guard Bureau. About 40 percent of the U.S. work force would be affected in a pandemic, and the virus would probably spread through the population in six- to eight-week "waves," Navy Capt. Lynn Slepski, of the Department of Homeland Security, said. With so many people unable to perform their normal jobs, federal and state agencies plan to assist with critical national missions such as maintaining transportation and distribution systems to ensure people have access to food, medicines and other supplies. Although NORTHCOM is prepared to take on more duties if requested by the president or secretary of defense, the command's primary mission will remain its "non-negotiable contract with the American people to defend the homeland," Bassani said. "We're here to support and defend the nation." |
| Indian Ocean girds for spread of incurable crippling disease Feb 02 1:39 PM US/Eastern |
Nearly 2,000 people in the Seychelles have been infected with an incurable mosquito-borne disease that has spread to three Indian Ocean islands prompting health alerts, officials said.
Jules Gedeon, the Seychelles director for community health, said the number of people diagnosed with "chikungunya" was steadily rising since it was first reported in November and nearly 1,000 cases had been reported in January alone.
"We are still counting, but the number is quickly approaching 1,000 for this week," Gedeon told AFP, adding the country's security forces had been drafted for a nationwide mosquito eradication drive to stall the spread.
In addition, the health ministry announced Thursday it would take legal action against people who do not take measures to control mosquito breeding on their property.
Authorities in Madagascar and the overseas French territory of Reunion, where some 45,000 new cases have been reported since mid-December, have reported outbreaks.
Last week, the French government drafted 400 extra troops to help fight the mosquitoes that have been spreading the disease across Reunion since March. (What will they do, shoot the mosquitoes with bb gun pellets?--"Cheyenne Cin") On Madagascar, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) west of Reunion, a health official said Thursday that two more people had shown symptoms of the disease after dozens flocked to a hospital on the eastern side of the island with similar complaints in the past two weeks.
"Two patients admitted today at Toamasina hospital they had joint pains that strongly point at chikungunya," Mosa Milasoa, an official in Madagascar's health ministry, told AFP.
"Chikungunya" is Swahili for "that which bends up" and refers to the stooped posture of those afflicted by the crippling and extremely painful disease for which there is no known vaccine or cure.
It is characterized by high fever and severe rashes, and while non-fatal in itself and most people eventually recover, it can provide opportunities for other diseases to set in.
Health officials in the Seychelles attributed the recent sharp rise in cases of chikungunya to heavy rains that have been pounding the island since December.
No deaths have so far been reported, but it has affected several businesses as infected people have stayed home from work and the transport sector has been badly hit with bus schedules interrupted as drivers fall sick, they said. ============== http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic880.htm
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