NEHA Participates in Counter-Bioterrorism Exercise.Top Off, an exercise held last May in Denver, tested how federal, state, and local government agencies would react if a bioterrorist attack occurred in a metropolis the size of the Denver area. The exercise also measured the responses of top officials. The hypothetical Hypothetical is an adjective, meaning of or pertaining to a hypothesis. See:
n. A frequently fatal form of bubonic plague in which the lungs are infected and the disease is transmissible by coughing. released into the air at a public event. A group of actors reported to various hospitals and agencies with flulike or pneumonia pneumonia (n  mōn`yə), acute infection of one or both lungs that can be caused by a bacterium, usually Streptococcus pneumoniae symptoms. (They did
inform emergency room staff, however, that the visits were part of an
exercise.) Various aspects of incident response were evaluated,
including communication among agencies, response time, crowd and riot
control, efficiency, organization, emergency preparedness pre·par·ed·ness n. The state of being prepared, especially military readiness for combat. Noun 1. preparedness - the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action); "putting them , and law enforcement. NEHA NEHA National Environmental Health Association NEHA National Executive Housekeepers Association NEHA Northern Estates Homeowners Association (Indianapolis, Indiana) staff member Chris Layne worked with the project as an information resource. Executive Director Nelson Fabian served as an evaluator and will provide a summary of the event in an upcoming issue of the Journal. |
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