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An occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition that may be caused by a biological incident, manmade or naturally occurring; the appearance of a novel, previously controlled, or eradicated infectious agent or biological ...
Source of Definition
Receipt, Staging, and Storage Sites that accept Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) assets (i.e., Push-Packages). As such, they would ideally include significant warehouse space, as well as cargo management and logistics assets. They should not ...
Provision of prevention, outreach, screening, triage, psychological first aid, education, and referral services to individuals and groups who have had or may have had exposure to an all-hazards incident.
Limiting people’s movement to prevent or limit the transmission of a communicable disease, including limiting ingress and egress to, from, or on a military installation, isolation, or quarantine.
The commander or officer in charge of a facility established for the purpose of furnishing medical and/or dental care to eligible individuals.
Designated team that provides command consultation, prevention, outreach, screening, triage, psychological first aid, education, and referral services following an all-hazards incident.
A diverse national/international laboratory network of local, State, and Federal public health, hospital-based, food testing, veterinary and environmental testing laboratories that provide rapid detection assays and laboratory diagnostics and ...
Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
A national repository of antibiotics, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, life-support medications, intravenous administration fluids and sets, airway maintenance supplies, and medical/surgical items. The SNS is designed to supplement and re ...
Diseases transmissible under natural conditions from vertebrate animals to humans.
A site intended for the dispensation of medications to a select or pre-defined population, not the general public.
A location where pharmaceuticals and other medications are distributed to the end user; these facilities may range from small clinics to large operations with multiple staging and operations areas; these facilities may also support a range of ...
The relocation of forces and materiel to desired operational areas. Deployment encompasses all activities from origin or home station through destination, specifically including intra-continental United States, inter-theater, and intra-theater ...
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A deployment that is limited to outside the continental United States, over 30 days in duration, and in a location with medical support from only non-fixed (temporary) military medical treatment facilities. It is a deployment in which ...
The total of the pre-deployment activities described in section 1 of Enclosure 2 of DoDI 6490.07 and those listed in paragraph E4.A1.1 of DoDI 6490.03.
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