RISK COMMUNICATION TO HEALTH-CARE WORKERS AS A RISK REDUCTION MEASURE IN BIOTERRORISM

摘要

A Bioterrorism act is a possibility perhaps more realistic today then ever before. Health-care workers will always be in the forefront of mitigating disease. In case the offending agent is contagious, the outbreak might spread from person to person, medical personnel being in specific jeopardy because of their increased contact with ill people. Spread among medical staff was an important route in propagation of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. Infection control measures have proved invaluable in halting the progress of the epidemic.