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Chertoff to watch drug dispensing as part of bio-terror drill
By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press Writer
April 6, 2005, 1:42 AM EDT
PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Federal Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was
scheduled to observe a mock antibiotic distribution effort Wednesday as the
nation's largest anti-terrorism drill entered its third day.
The secretary, a New Jersey resident and former U.S. attorney in Newark, was
to watch as emergency workers dispensed fake drugs to people including the
so-called "worried well" who were not exposed to the pneumonic plague
bacteria but want or need the medication to prevent them from contracting
the deadly disease.
The drill in New Jersey involves a fake bio-terror attack launched from a
sport utility vehicle with a commercial sprayer. By noon on Wednesday, 3,076
"deaths" had been recorded statewide as part of the exercise scenario.
At the same time, Connecticut officials are dealing with a simulated
chemical weapons attack on the New London waterfront.
New Jersey officials are setting up drug distribution points, including a
large one at the Rutgers University Athletic Center, which Chertoff will
visit with acting Gov. Richard Codey.
The state's response to the hypothetical attack involves isolating victims
and those close to them, and distributing preventive antibiotics to others
to further halt the spread of the fast-moving disease.
"To stop that in its tracks, the first thing is reaching the people who are
sick," said James Langenbach, an official with the state health department
who is helping organize New Jersey's response as part of the drill. "Then we
operate these points of distribution to give medicine to help people from
getting the plague."
By Friday morning, all 21 of the state's counties will have drug
distribution points set up as part of the drill, Langenbach said.
The first day of the weeklong drill that began Monday focused on
investigating the initial incident when the sport utility vehicle with the
bacteria sprayer was found abandoned in a parking lot of a satellite campus
of Kean University in Hillside.
The second day, Tuesday, focused on the response of hospitals to an influx
of "sick" and "dying" patients.
Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.
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