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1998 · 85515 — Fort Detrick MD: US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Public Health Training Network Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration 1998. Presumed First Edition of this compilation. Box with participant materials included. Box is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. Very good. Box has slight wear and soiling. Contents in very good condition. Unclear is some are reprints or produced for this satellite broadcast training. This includes a Dear Participant letter from the Office of the Commander US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Colonel Gerald W. Parker dated July 7 1998; Key Information sheet of Dates of Broadcasts and Taped Rebroadcast Dates and Time Telephone Call-in Instructions and Fax Instruction Forms; Optical Scan Forms Instruction Sheets; List of State and Territorial Health Departments; Student Booklet for Satellite Broadcasts on Tuesday September 22 1998 Wednesday September 23 1998 and Thursday September 24 1998; Student Booklet for Taped Rebroadcasts Saturday October 3 1998 and Sunday October 4 1998; Handout on Packaging and Shipping Infectious Materials; Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report May 2 1997 Vol. 46 No. RR-10 approximately 60 pages; NATO Handbook on the Medical Aspects of NBC Defensive Operations AMedP-6B Part II - Biological FM 8-9 NVMED-P-509 AFJMAN 44-151V1V2V3 February 1996 Approximately 100 pages; Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook Third Edition July 1998 approximately 150 pages plus fold-outs Format is approximately 4.5 inches by 6.25 inches; Defense Against Toxin Weapons by David Franz approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches approximately 50 pages; Booklet at Open At Final Exam Time seal still intact--unopened. The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases USAMRIID; pronounced: you-SAM-rid is the U.S Army's main institution and facility for defensive research into countermeasures against biological warfare. It is located on Fort Detrick Maryland near Washington D.C. and is a subordinate lab of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command USAMRDC headquartered on the same installation. USAMRIID is the only U.S. Department of Defense DoD laboratory equipped to study highly hazardous viruses at Biosafety Level 4 within positive pressure personnel suits. USAMRIID employs both military and civilian scientists as well as highly specialized support personnel totaling around 800 people. In the 1950s and '60s USAMRIID and its predecessor unit pioneered unique state-of-the-art biocontainment facilities which it continues to maintain and upgrade. Investigators at its facilities frequently collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the World Health Organization and major biomedical and academic centers worldwide. USAMRIID was the first bio-facility of its type to research the Ames strain of anthrax determined through genetic analysis to be the bacterium used in the 2001 anthrax attacks. By U.S. Department of Defense DoD directive as well as additional U.S. Army guidance USAMRIID performs its "biological agent medical defense" research in support of the needs of the three military services. This mission and all work done at USAMRIID must remain within the spirit and letter of both President Richard Nixon's 1969 and 1970 Executive Orders renouncing the use of biological and toxin weapons and the U.N. Biological Weapons Convention of 1972. During the period of Desert Shield and Desert Storm 1990-91 USAMRIID provided the DoD with expert advice and products vaccines and drugs to ensure an effective medical response if a medical defense were required. USAMRIID scientists trained and equipped six special laboratory teams for rapid identification of potential BW agents which fortunately never appeared. Following the conflict USAMRIID physicians and engineers were key members of a United Nations Special Commission UNSCOM Inspection Team that evaluated the BW capabilities in Iraq during the 1990s. US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ,Public Health Training Network, Centers for Disease Control and Preve unknown