September Newsletter - 2004
Smallpox Exercise Program
Development Continues
Exercises will be field-tested in the St. Louis metropolitan area
All five elements of the smallpox exercise project have been written and are in
the final editorial stage. Gene Carroll, our Institute Multimedia director, is
negotiating use of the local PBS television studio to videotape the media segments
with a former local news anchor. These segments will bring news of an increasingly
dire smallpox outbreak to the fictional community.
As part of the overall quality assurance phase of the project, the exercises will
be field-tested with local hospitals and the St. Louis County and St. Louis City
Health Departments. Dr. Alan Zelicoff and the Aires Corporation have generously
agreed to support that effort by making SYRIS (the Syndrome Reporting Information
System ) available to the exercise participants.
Have a question or comment? Email
bioterr@slu.edu