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Terrorism: the Epidemiology of Fear R onald LaPorte, PhD., F rancois Sauer, M.D., C arlos Gamboa, M.D., T ony Villasenor, BS, R ania Saad, MD., and E ugene Shubnikov, M.D.
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Shock Disbelief Depression Anger Fear Helplessness
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Where did our children and community receive Terrorism Information Sept. 11-20
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Global Health Network Sept. 1, 2001 Towards an Internet Civil Defence against Bioterrorism Lancet
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Germans
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Sept 10 Rules of Engagement
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Approaches to Homeland Defense Sept. 10 Sensors Better Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Data Mining Surveillance
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Approaches to Homeland Defense Sept. 11
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Approaches to Homeland Defense Now Sensors Better Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Data Mining Surveillance
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Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack Preparation 5 years Execution 1 day Diagnosed case 3 days First Death Multiple deaths Sensors Better Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Data Mining Surveillance Maximum 1-2 day Improvement
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Approaches to Homeland Defense Now “A universal theme of the revolutionaries is that America spends entirely too much money buying slightly better versions of weapons it already has, at the expense of serious improvement” NYTimes, 3/10/02 Can these systems transform homeland defense?
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Sensors Better Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Data Mining Surveillance Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Using Sept. 10 technology Maximum Improvement, 1-2 days Risk Reduction = <5% Can these systems transform homeland defense?
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Bioterrorism is not an Emerging Disease Who is Mr. H?
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“…warfare seeks to conquer territories and capture cities; terrorism seeks to hurt a few people and to scare a lot of people in order to make a point” NYTimes, 1/6/2000 “Putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen” Click on Horror
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Hitchcock’s mission in life: “to simply scare the hell out of people”
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Old PH view of Bioterrorism Pathogen = Infectious Agent Damage = Morbidity and Mortality Model = Emerging Disease Epidemiology New PH view of Bioterrorism Pathogen = Hate Damage = Fear Model = Epidemiology of Fear and Hate
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New Models Internet Civil Defense CSI epidemiologists Educational Deterrent against terrorism I-I-
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