Pre-Event
Planning
Criteria
for Implementation of Smallpox Response Plan
Authorities
will also need to understand what will trigger the implementation
of their smallpox response plan. In the United States, it has been
determined that triggering of the response plan will occur if there
is confirmation of the virus in a specimen, a large outbreak of
a clinically compatible illness, or the confirmation of smallpox
virus in an environmental sample or distribution device. Other
criteria for implementing the smallpox response plan are:
- Confirmation
of smallpox virus, antigen or nucleic acid in a clinical specimen.
- Large outbreak
of clinically compatible illness pending etiologic confirmation.
- Confirmation
of smallpox virus in environmental sample, package or device
associated with potential human exposure.
Reports of suspected
or probable cases once an outbreak has been previously identified
should also illicit implementation of the smallpox response plan.
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