Newsletter volume 2 2005

MORRIS COUNTY OFFICE OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2
SUMMER 2005
TOPOFF3: A REVIEW
By Thursday, April 7, limited-notice WMD plague had spread to every (weapons of mass destruc- county in New Jersey. In an tion) response exercise, effort to stem the outbreak, designed to better prepare Acting Governor Codey senior government officials ordered the opening of dis- to effectively respond to an pensing sites to distribute actual terrorist attack in-antibiotics to citizens. In volving a biological weapon. Roxbury Township, over In Morris County the action one hundred Morris County was in Roxbury Township Medical Reserve Corps Vol- where the Morris County 800 medical professionals
to 400 people including pre-positioned equipment 220 non medical
It wasn’t real, it was over 200 “victim” actors. TOPOFF3: a national-level, Local and county officials multi-agency, multi- will now use the observa- bers. SAVE THE DATE:
PLANNING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS
October 22, 2005
Region II Medical Reserve
Corps Conference
Manalapan, NJ
ANTIBIOTICS FOUND IN THE STRATEGIC NATIONAL STOCKPILE
Doxycycline, doxy, is an
Ciprofloxacin, cipro, is a
dosing depends on the weight lantin (for seizures) or if you nant women should also avoid cipro 2 hours before a meal 2-1-1 OR FIRST CALL FOR HELP
2-1-1 will be able to answer “Our database is growing as the calls for health information or service grows,” Julie Lange, pany. The office also answers The well trained staff responds opportunities, low-cost apart- Essex, Sussex, and Union true number. The ability to detect an ab- erration depends on timely and consistent reporting of all reportable diseases. Al- though this is a limitation, surveillance clinical laboratory worker first notices was first suspected when routinely sub- data is still valuable in a number of ways. They help identify demographic groups at higher risk of illness for which programs These data also allow for analysis of dis- ease trends and can help identify epidem- NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS)
NIMS include Command and FEMA’s NIMS website at: ernment would have to assist. domestic incident manage- tion Center oversees and facili- sponders are all required to AVIAN INFLUENZA
Pharmacists
RAINING FOR MUNICIPALITIES
to offer more opportunities the Class A agents, the county’s response plans and 631-5491) or Arlene (973- pate in exercises. Participa- an overview of what a point 631-5489) know. it is difficult to know exactly Preparedness, check the needed. If there is a training www.northwestnjredcross.
W W W . M O R R I S H E A L T H . O R G
WHAT TO EXPECT AT A POD
Coming soon:
Acting as a staff member in a phylaxis of hundreds of Identification cards for
MRC volunteers
Fit testing on N95 masks.
most seasoned medical pro- no time to waste, the main will move through these Rutgers 40 Hour-
concept behind the POD is stations very rapidly. because it is a situation not getting as many pills in Bioterrorism modules
medical professionals we are the shortest amount of trained to excel to a level of time, a much different Resources
scenario then with routine you are doing a great job! practice, and we train our- medical care. Another selves to accept nothing less major difference is that than that standard of care for rather than emphasizing tates the opening of a POD Each POD is broken up would require the mass pro- into 3 streamlined sta-

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