Centers for Disease Control and Prevention works all around the United States as an agency that promotes public health. Through this agency, we have a bioterrorism website that focuses on biological agents like bacteria, viruses, and toxins that are deliberate released making it a form of terrorism. These biological agents can be spread in three ways air, water, and food. The main disease resulting from bioterrorism is death ranging from humans, animals, and plants. The CDC Bioterrorism website is https://emergency.cdc.gov/bioterrorism/index.asp and by the time we are finished you will know how to use this to better prepare your office for the possibility of a bioterrorist attack. Once you hit the link to the CDC Bioterrorism page you'll see the main title Emergency Preparedness and Response from there let's start with the three categories.
Category A is known as the highest priority because these diseases pose a huge risk to the safety of the public. The reason this is poses a risk is these agents or diseases can easily be transmitted from one person to another and can cause a huge public health crisis. One disease in this category is Smallpox also known as variola major. This acute contagious disease caused a huge frenzy in 1949 with symptoms like a fever and skin rash but a vaccination …show more content…
One disease in this category is food safety threats like Escherichia coli (E. coli). We all know about this gram-negative bacterium mostly found in food, intestines, or environment. Popular food chain Chipotle had an outbreak in 2015 and resulting in disease surveillance for the next few years. Other diseases include Q fever (bacterium produced by Coxiella burnetii), Typhus fever ( the group of diseases caused by bacteria), Brucellosis (zoonotic infection produced by Brucella), and Ricin toxin (poison byproduct of the production of castor
Category A is known as the highest priority because these diseases pose a huge risk to the safety of the public. The reason this is poses a risk is these agents or diseases can easily be transmitted from one person to another and can cause a huge public health crisis. One disease in this category is Smallpox also known as variola major. This acute contagious disease caused a huge frenzy in 1949 with symptoms like a fever and skin rash but a vaccination …show more content…
One disease in this category is food safety threats like Escherichia coli (E. coli). We all know about this gram-negative bacterium mostly found in food, intestines, or environment. Popular food chain Chipotle had an outbreak in 2015 and resulting in disease surveillance for the next few years. Other diseases include Q fever (bacterium produced by Coxiella burnetii), Typhus fever ( the group of diseases caused by bacteria), Brucellosis (zoonotic infection produced by Brucella), and Ricin toxin (poison byproduct of the production of castor