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With shortage of flu vaccine, bioterrorism drill becomes more real.
2004 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The national shortage of flu vaccine has brought a bioterrorism drill planned for southeastern Colorado a lot closer to reality.
Healthcare workers in 9 rural counties will go ahead with plans to distribute 10,000 flu shots to practice how they might handle inoculations in the event of bioterrorism attack.
Those considered high-risk for the disease, such as seniors, pregnant women and young children, will get priority in receiving the shots during the drill. And, just as might happen in an actual smallpox or anthrax outbreak, some people who show up at community centers and clinics looking for flu shots will be turned away.
Plans for the drill, made before the shortage was known, also include stationing police outside clinics to control possible unruly crowds.
"We were on board and everything was looking wonderful and then, just like that, it's a true public health emergency," said Jacqueline Brown, the Prowers County Public Health Nursing Service director who came up with the idea for the drill 2 years ago.
The state had already promised 10,000 shots for use in the drill before the nation's supply was cut in half after British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major U.S. vaccine supplier. ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, With shortage of flu vaccine, bioterrorism drill becomes more real.