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    This document summarizes guidelines for reporting bioterrorism from the San Mateo County Health Department. It outlines three categories of bioterrorism agents based on their potential threat. Category A agents pose the highest risk due to their ease of transmission, high mortality rates, and potential for social disruption. They include anthrax, smallpox, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. Category B agents are moderately easy to spread and have moderate morbidity rates, including diseases such as typhus and food/waterborne illnesses. Category C pathogens are emerging diseases that could potentially be engineered for mass dissemination due to their availability, ease of production/spread, and high health impacts. The document provides websites for staying updated on biot

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    This document summarizes guidelines for reporting bioterrorism from the San Mateo County Health Department. It outlines three categories of bioterrorism agents based on their potential threat. Category A agents pose the highest risk due to their ease of transmission, high mortality rates, and potential for social disruption. They include anthrax, smallpox, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. Category B agents are moderately easy to spread and have moderate morbidity rates, including diseases such as typhus and food/waterborne illnesses. Category C pathogens are emerging diseases that could potentially be engineered for mass dissemination due to their availability, ease of production/spread, and high health impacts. The document provides websites for staying updated on biot

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    San Mateo County Health Department

    Public Health Reporting Guidelines

    BT Categories and Resources


    Bioterrorism agents are classified into three main categories, ranked in order of potential threat:

    Staying current
    Information about BT agents is constantly evolving. Stay up to date by visiting the following authoritative websites: www.bt.cdc.gov

    Category A
    These are the Big 6 in bioterror: anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, CrimeanCongo, Lassa, or Marburg viruses). Category A agents are considered highest risk because they: can be easily disseminated or transmitted from person to person result in high mortality rates and have the potential for major public health impacts cause panic and social disruption require special public health preparedness (for example, your reading this document right now).

    Category B
    Diseases and agents in this category have these properties: moderately easy to disseminate moderate morbidity rates and low mortality rates require specific enhancements of CDC's diagnostic capacity and enhanced disease surveillance. Examples in this category include: brucellosis, glanders, Q fever, typhus fever, psittacosis, and viral encephalitis. Also included are food safety threats like E. coli O157:H7, salmonella, and shigella; water safety threats like cryptosporidium and cholera; and the toxins ricin and Epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens. Website of the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), which leads the nations public health emergency preparedness and response. www.usamriid.army.mil/education/instruct.html BT reference library maintained by the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/dcdc/bt/pdf/CA_BT_Surv_Epi_Plan-2002b.pdf The detailed Bioterrorism Surveillance and Epidemiologic Response Plan prepared by California Department of Health Services. Note: Web addresses above may change, so if you dont find a specific web page, try going to the organizations home page and drilling down from there.

    Category C
    These are emerging pathogens that could be bio-engineered for mass dissemination. These agents: are readily available are relatively easy to produce and disseminate have the potential for high morbidity and mortality rates and major health impacts. Examples include emerging diseases such as Nipah virus and hantavirus.

    CDC Bioterrorism Hotline (770) 488-7100

    II.H.2. BT Categories and Resources June 2009

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