Biological Terrorism, Responding to the Threat: A Personal Safety Manual by Angelo Salvucci Jr. M.D.

Biological Terrorism, Responding to the Threat: A Personal Safety Manual by Preparedness Medical Manuals

Biological Terrorism, Responding to the Threat: A Personal Safety Manual by Angelo Salvucci Jr. M.D.
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Updated on 5-23-2012.

Product Description
The book does a good job of presenting the basics of bioterrorism, including the various diseases. The suggested websites are good and the suggested prescriptions are also good. There are a couple checklists for your consideration, mostly applicable to any emergency. However, the part of the title about the book being "A Personal Safety Manual" is not accurate. Mostly it just says to wait for local authorities to tell you what to do. One recommended action is to "shelter in place" but little detail is provided on how to do that. Perhaps my expectations are higher being on a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) where individuals are expected to rely almost completely on themselves for days and maybe weeks until help arrives. I'm looking for specific "to do" suggestions that enable individuals to take care of themselves. Maybe such actions are not possible for bioterrorism. I was disappointed in the book for these reasons.

From the Publisher

Dr. Salvucci and the Public Safety Medical team first wrote the Personal Safety Manual in 1998. At that time there was a great deal of discussion in our country about the possibility of bioterrorism. But the threat was vague and ill defined. The threat was considered so unlikely that although terrorism experts believed it to be genuine, Dr. Salvucci realized that the public felt otherwise. But the events of September 11, 2001 have sadly changed all that. What was once abstract and difficult to understand has now become quite clear and obvious. "Terrorism" is not a picture in the morning newspaper or a sound bite from the evening news from a community far away. It represents a large-scale and disastrously savage event right here on our soil.