Download or read book Medical Readiness written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Medical Readiness written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book Medical Readiness written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Readiness written by Carol R. Schuster and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Readiness DOD Continues to Face Challenges in Implementing Its Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are pleased to be here today to discuss our past work on the Department of Defense's (DOD) anthrax vaccine immunization program. As you know, DOD regards the biological agent anthrax, an infectious disease that is 99-percent lethal if inhaled by unprotected humans, as the single greatest biological weapon threat to U.S. military forces. DOD considers vaccination one of the measures critical to protecting U.S. forces against such weapons. In December 1997, the Secretary of Defense announced a plan to immunize all active and reserve military personnel with a licensed anthrax vaccine. In August 1998, DOD began immunizing all 2.4 million U.S. military personnel-including all active and reserve personnel-against anthrax. Today we would like to provide a brief update on three key findings of our October 1999 report. The findings relate to vaccine supply, medical records, and efforts to educate service members about the program. We have also reviewed other aspects of the anthrax vaccine immunization program, including the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and the contracts with the manufacturer. Our related reports are listed in an attachment to this statement.

Download or read book Medical Readiness DOD Continues to Face Challenges in Implementing Its Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are pleased to be here today to discuss our past work on the Department of Defense's (DOD) anthrax vaccine immunization program. As you know, DOD regards the biological agent anthrax, an infectious disease that is 99-percent lethal if inhaled by unprotected humans, as the single greatest biological weapon threat to U.S. military forces. DOD considers vaccination one of the measures critical to protecting U.S. forces against such weapons. In December 1997, the Secretary of Defense announced a plan to immunize all active and reserve military personnel with a licensed anthrax vaccine. In August 1998, DOD began immunizing all 2.4 million U.S. military personnel-including all active and reserve personnel-against anthrax. Today we would like to provide a brief update on three key findings of our October 1999 report. The findings relate to vaccine supply, medical records, and efforts to educate service members about the program. We have also reviewed other aspects of the anthrax vaccine immunization program, including the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and the contracts with the manufacturer. Our related reports are listed in an attachment to this statement.

Download or read book Medical readiness DOD faces challenges in implementing its Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program report to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member Committee on Veterans Affairs U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthrax Protection written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Department of Defense Antibiological Warfare Agent Vaccine Acquisition Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anthrax Vaccine written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vaccine used to protect humans against the anthrax disease, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA), was licensed in 1970. It was initially used to protect people who might be exposed to anthrax where they worked, such as veterinarians and textile plant workers who process animal hair. When the U. S. military began to administer the vaccine, then extended a plan for the mandatory vaccination of all U. S. service members, some raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of AVA and the manufacture of the vaccine. In response to these and other concerns, Congress directed the Department of Defense to support an independent examination of AVA. The Anthrax Vaccine: Is It Safe? Does It Work? reports the study's conclusion that the vaccine is acceptably safe and effective in protecting humans against anthrax. The book also includes a description of advances needed in main areas: improving the way the vaccine is now used, expanding surveillance efforts to detect side effects from its use, and developing a better vaccine.

Download or read book Biological warfare defense vaccine research and development program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE VACCINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM HEARING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ten Years After written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deployment Force Protection and Health Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program written by Joseph H. Alexander and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to service members' complaints of program insensitivity to adverse health effects, inadequate medical record-keeping, & heavy-handed program operation, the Committee initiated an oversight investigation into the design & implementation of the DoD force-wide, mandatory Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program. The Committee measured the program against this standard: any expanded use of the same vaccine should be undertaken only with the greatest care & only to the extent necessary. As currently designed & implemented, the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program fails on both counts. The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program lacks a consistent standard of care & is designed to reach far beyond those at risk.

Download or read book Weapons of Mass Destruction written by Norman J. Rabkin and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dec. 1993, DoD announced the Defense Counterprolif. Initiative (DCI) in response to the growing threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons. The DCI calls for the develop. of offensive and defensive capabilities to prevail over an adversary that threatens or uses such weapons. This report describes DoD's actions to make the NBC threat a matter of routine consideration within its org., activities, and functions. Examines the actions of the Interagency Counterprolif. Prog. Rev. Comm. to coordinate the R&D prog. of DoD, DoE, and the intelligence community to identify and eliminate unnecessary duplication. Charts and tables.