DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

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Subject: DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS       

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                generally should be considered hazardous, as some will disperse plague bacilli by aerosol.


                An@ could present a risk from open lesions or blood which could result in cutaneous


                and=. Vegetative forms of and= do not pose a d=t of aerosol dissemination from


                blood or during autopsy procedures, but sporulation of bacilli exposed to air theoretically


                could occur, with subsequent inhalation. On the other hand, vegetative forms of plague and


                tularemia bacilli may be dangerous, since, under some circumstances, they am lmown to


                cause aerosol infections. Ilerefore, postmortem examinations of suspected an@, plague,


                and tularemia victims should be performed with strict mask, gown, and glove precautions


                because of the large numbers of organisms present in body fluids.




                       @hylaxis and 'ne=: AR medical prophylactic modalities described should be


                viewed only as secondaa (i.e., backup), and are not to be relied upon as primary protective


                measures. Agent exposures near the source of dissemination win be high, and likely to


                overwhelm any medical protective measure. 'rbe precise efficacy of available medical


                countermeasures has, of course, never been evaluated in actual field circumstances, but is


                largely inferred from laboratory studies on nonhuman primates. While these extrapolations


                may be inexact, they strongly support the efficacy of vaccines and drugs at some agent dose.






                                                                            -LAS@iFiLD FY:
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Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 17-DEC-1996