MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL

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Subject: MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL             

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Folder Title: MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS                                            

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             Use of Improvised Refugea. The term 'improvised refuge' is
         used to describe systems which offer only limited protection,
         which can be created even when a supply of filtered air is not
         available. The simplest form of improvised refuge is a room or
         space with the doors and windows closed during the hours of
         darkness and fully open in daytime, on the assumption that the
         biological attack is most likely at night.

             0 Further benefit can be obtained by using a space within a
             space. Thus, inner rooms of buildings tend to have less
             aerosol in them than outer rooms, especially if the opening is
             toward the lee side of the building.

             0 Further protection can be achieved if doors, windows and
             other openings can be sealed, but this may seriously reduce
             the habitability of the space, especially if it is not large.
             The optimum solution will probably be to select fairly large
             rooms and to keep the occupancy of each room small.

             Lise of improvised Repoigatory Prot@cti_=. In some cases it
         may be impracticable to use either collective protection,
         individual protective equipment, or to remain with improvised
         collective protection. In such circumstances consideration should
         be given to the use of various forms of improvised respiratory
         protection.

             0 Certain types of surgical or other oral-nasal masks
             (notably rigid types made of fibrous materials) do have a
             useful particulate filtration capability. The problem with
             such masks is that they tend to have a relatively high
             resistance to the flow of air through them. Nevertheless,
             some well fitting types may offer a useful degree of
             protection.

             0 As an expedient, a cloth, folded into multiple layers and
er the mouth and nose to protect from
             biological material for short periods of time.




             0 Negative Correlation. Negative correlation encompasses the
             post attack examination of munition fragments using existing
             instruments and can indicate whether fills are conventional or






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