excerpts from various government and industry WWW sites pertaining to mass decontamination

The entire incident is a crime scene requiring the collection of criminal evidence and suspicious victim belongings. The preservation of a proper chain of custody must be maintained for all evidence. ... patients could be suspects and their belongings may be evidence. ... Direct patients through a detailed decontamination process and deal with potentially unruly patients. ... Enforce order when persons become uncooperative when asked to remove clothing and relinquish personal items.
Removal of clothing in the decon procedure has the additional advantage of detecting weapons or a secondary device on a victim or "pseudo-victim."
The removal of clothing as a decon procedure has the additional advantage of detecting a secondary device concealed on a victim.
Since it is impossible to determine with certainty whether or not the victims have been contaminated, a Minimum Level of Decontamination must be defined. Victims from a sentinel event should not be allowed to enter a bus, ambulance, or the medical center without the removal of clothing. Removal of clothing is the essential first step in the treatment of the contaminated victim. Once the clothing has been removed, the victim will remove over 80% of the contaminant after liquid contamination and nearly 100% after vapor contamination. This may be the only decontamination procedure that is required for those victims exposed only to a chemical gas or vapor or biologic exposure. ... Some patients, after a clinical assessment, might require a soap and water shower if liquid exposure is suspected. ... once the clothing is removed, the victim is unlikely to leave the scene and more likely to wait for water decon and further processing.
Evidence collection (such as bagging of clothing samples) from victims before decontamination may yield clues to the nature of the agent. Interrogation and evidence collection should be coordinated with local police and FBI officials.
To prevent these patients from escaping our decon system, the entrance to the terminal was closed, and all pedestrian traffic from the ferry dock was diverted to a holding pen
must remain vigilant to the possibility of a secondary device or other dangerous weapons being found on victims. ... requiring processing of clothing as evidence ... Recorded messages, replayed, can provide instructions for patients to vacate the area, remove their clothes, sit down, etc., along with words of reassurance. ... a larger crowd could overwhelm officers more quickly and probably result in the escape of contaminated victims and perhaps the perpertrator. ... officers should be more aware of their surroundings and better utilize resources such as fencing, gates, and vehicles as a means of crowd containment during such an incident. ... immediately identify, isolate, and debrief victims, witnesses, and first responders for the purpose of gathering intelligence regarding the incident. ... As victims exit decontamination and prior to transport to the hospitals, when medically possible, each should be interviewed, identified, photographed, and fingerprinted. --Biennial Exercise, Tampa Bay Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), District VIII, Fire Chief Ernie Hiers
It should be noted that no patient should be allowed to leave the exclusion zone without undergoing decontamination procedures. ... to aid rescuers with identifying clothing (evidence) belonging to victims. After a victim's clothing has been removed and placed into an airtight clear plastic bag, the long CONTAMINATED tear off strip is placed inside the bag face out. The numbered tag allows for clear identification of items... The Personal Property Receipt/Evidence tag found at the top of the tag is to be used for identifying valuables removed from victims. (Jewelry, wallets, watches, cash etc..). These items should be collected and placed in a smaller one-gallon clear plastic bag.

use of decon for quelling civil unrest:

All of the victim's clothes are removed at the first station... Two Marines in full decontamination suits ... remove all clothing. The clothes are cut off and placed in proper trash cans. ... The CBIRFs decontamination element consists of 27 enlisted Marines and Sailors. The element is responsible for the decontamination of personnel and casualties, which in turn stabilizes causalities for further treatment. The decontamination element establishes itself at the edge of a contaminated area near the medical element's triage station. There, personnel and casualties, whether ambulatory or non-ambulatory, are processed through a series of stations derived from Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) decontamination standards. As contaminated individuals enter the area, their personal effects and equipment are collected, and clothing items are removed. The individuals are then sprayed and sponged with a .5 percent bleach solution, and led through a shower system to rinse off the ... ... approximately 120 Marines mostly infantrymen. ... trained in a variety of roles including security patrols, Military Operations in Urban Terrain, riot control and vehicle and personnel search.... providing security patrols for the reconnaissance element, quelling civil unrest, detaining hostile forces, assisting with the evacuation of casualties, securing the contaminated area a providing security to the CBIRF site. The unit carries the M870 shotguns, M16-A2 service rifles, M-203 40mm grenade launchers M-249 Squad Automatic Weapons and M-204G medium machine guns.
what do they mean by "undergoing decontamination"? 

undergo
Main Entry:     un.der.go
Pronunciation:  "&n-d&r-'gO
Function:       transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):      un.der.went /-'went/; un.der.gone /-'gon also -'g@n/; un.der.go.ing /-'gO-i[ng], -'go(-)i[ng]/
Date:   14th century
1 : to submit to : ENDURE

shaving:

The patient's clothes must be removed and sealed, the patient washed with soap and water, eyes flushed, and hair shaved. Decontamination facilities set up by HazMat teams would likely be necessary for multiple patients, and suitable barrier precautions would be provided to health care staff.

shaving and contraband hidden in hair:

All of us had to go through compulsory quarantine.... were made to strip naked, all our things having been previously taken from us, ... Next, our heads were shaved and we had to bathe under cold showers.... The shaving of heads down to bare skin presented me with a problem since I had long hair in which was hidden Mme. Lutostanska's property which I had so far carried safely.
What did you feel the first time you saw all these naked women? I felt that accordingly I got to do what they told me, to cut their hair in a way that it looked like the barber was doing his job for a woman, and I set out to give them both, to take off as much hair as I could, because they needed women's hair to be transported to Germany?
Disrobing is decontamination; head to toe, more removal is better... approaches to conducting mass casualty decontamination using existing fire apparatus and equipment. The two predominant systems developed are the Ladder Pipe Decontamination System (LDS) and the Emergency Decontamination Corridor System (EDCS). These systems approach decontamination from two variations. The LDS provides the capability to decontaminate the greater number of victims at one time but affords no privacy, while the EDCS provides privacy in the form of covered decontamination lanes but the rate of processing casualties is slowed. These systems were demonstrated by various fire departments supporting the CWIRP during BALTEX exercises.
The possibility of biological and chemical terrorism is a matter of serious concern for federal, state and local emergency agencies responsible for responding to such incidents -- especially at highly visible events such as the track and field trials.

Sacramento County has designated the medical center as the Control Facility (CF) in the event of any kind of multicasualty incident, defined as any event that requires more emergency medical resources to adequately handle victims than are available under routine circumstances. A multicasualty incident could result from natural or human-made events, such as floods, earthquakes, a loss of utilities, acts of civil disobedience and accidents.

The medical center stockpiles antidotes for different agents and makes them available on a regional basis, and has a specially designed chemical decontamination facility. The facility includes a 2,000-gallon tank to collect the drainage water used to cleanse patients who have been exposed to a chemical agent. Only one other hospital in Sacramento has a decontamination facility, and because its collection tank is very small, it would not be able to handle many patients in need of chemical decontamination.

Every member of the emergency department staff has completed a class in decontamination techniques and treatment of victims of biological warfare and other weapons of mass destruction.

New BodySearch(TM) X-ray Technology Unveiled

The unique x-ray imaging system is designed to quickly and safely detect both metallic and organic materials such as drugs, weapons and illegal contraband.

The scan requires no physical contact between the operator and the subject, thus vastly reducing the threat of assault against law enforcement personnel and the spread of communicable diseases.

The BodySearch(TM) device was installed late in 1997, and has been in a testing and operator training period since its installation.

Discussion this week centered on the history of the ACLU and how it has become involved in the field of terrorism. Mr. Nojeim explained the organization's involvement as one that evolved from monitoring those targeting communists to those targeting terrorists. He named numerous examples of how the hunt for terrorists is rooted in the Cold War. Vestiges of the Cold War include secret evidence, excessive government secrecy through classification, and wire taps, just to name a few. Other important points included the fact that there is no definition of domestic terrorism and that the actual risk of terrorism in the US (in terms of occurred incidents) is very low. Another major focus of discussion was the legislation passed by Congress on anti-terrorist activity.

In summary, terrorism has replaced communism in this country, both in terms of attacks and the institutions used to track terrorists. The ACLU and Mr. Nojeim are working to preserve the individual rights of those who are targeted by terrorist allegations.

Immediately remove all contaminated clothing, including undergarments and jewelry. This is no time for modesty.
Consider bagging the victim's jewelry and other valuables separately from clothing for easier retrieval later.
...disrobe in less than private surroundings will also affect the conduct of field decontamination. Where there are very large numbers in need of decontamination, crowd control measures will be necessary to keep panicky or merely im- patient victims at the scene long enough to complete decontamination.
Defense against Weapons of Mass Destruction Domestic Preparedness is law in the United States! ...prepare law enforcement and other government agencies... "wash/wet, strip, flush, cover." General washdown with water (most likely from a shower hose), strip off all clothing, flush with water and cover (with expedient clothing such as a bedsheet, etc).
Dubbed the ?Israeli model,? it consists of 10 shower heads permanently fixed in the ceiling of a sidewalk area outside the Emergency Department. Large curtains drop to form separate lines for men and women. ?We use parallel runs for men and women for privacy,? Browning said. ?The curtains drop, temperature controlled water is turned on and the showers are activated. Patients walk through the corridor of shower heads and come out clean at the end of the walk.? ... An estimated 200 people can be decontaminated in an hour and the system is designed to be set up and operating within five minutes. ... ?We?ll focus on traffic flow problems, elements of the patients disrobing, bagging their clothing and tracking their belongings, and logistical problems,? he said. ... The entire process was filmed by a crew from the U.S. Department of Justice for possible use in a national training video. The video will focus on a terrorist attack, decontamination procedures and the nationally recognized incident command structure.
...public safety issues, crime prevention... "get 'em naked and get 'em wet."
The identification of contaminated victims and their personal effects... Victims are also videotaped as they proceed through the decontamination line.
Video Surveillance... Videotaped documentation could later be used in the evidence processes;
Ontario International Airport , Ontario California, has become the first airport in the nation to get a high tech portable mass decontamination system. The system manufactured by Modec Inc. of Denver can process up to 700 persons per hour. The portable unit can be easily set up in under thirty minutes. The Los Angeles World Airports which owns and operates Ontario International bought three of the $220,000 mass casualty decon systems and gave the first one to the Ontario International Airport. The project under the direction of Mr. Michael DiGirolamo, Director of Airports Operation Los Angeles City Dept. of Airports, and was coordinated by Mr. Richard Taylor, Disaster Preparedness Coordinator for the Los Angeles City Dept. of Airports. ... Men and women would go through different compartments. After the showers, they would have to wear paper suits until uncontaminated clothing could be brought to them. Personal belongings would be decontaminated separately, and some items may have to be destroyed, DiGirolamo said.
The disinfection/decontamination process is akin to "putting humans through a car wash" after first destroying their garments. Los Angeles World Airports have put in place a contingency plan to disinfect up to 10,000 persons who might have been exposed to biological or chemical substances.
So far, we can see that the German bomb shelter is a relatively sophisticated operation, including a systematic design and a division of functions. In addition, the references to gas tight doors, buckets for contaminated clothing, wash rooms, changing rooms, and decontamination centers reflects a very real concern with the possibility of poison gas attacks.
Before she knew it, she was being removed from her home, taken to a soccer field and told to strip down to her underwear as strangers watched.

"It was the most humiliating thing I've ever had to go through," she said.

By the time Hazmat teams arrived and set up, it was about 9 p.m. Crew members donned masks and green splash suits, squirting water through special nozzles that kept the pressure low as the people passed through the line. Though plastic tarps were held up on each side, Huizar and the others who were decontaminated, most of them women, said they had to strip down in an area that was within the view of a crowd of at least 100 emergency personnel, TV crews and other spectators.

"It felt like we were raped," said Huizar, 42, reenacting how she was told to lift up her arms and turn in circles as she walked down the line.

Firefighters and local ag officials say the possible consequences outweighed privacy issues at that point.

hose people down both to decontaminate them and to discourage them from leaving the area. ... victims would be given Tyvek suits, spare clothing, or even garbage bags to wear... dozens of people could be herded through decontamination lines simultaneously.
herded into a prefabricated tunnel, doused with water from fire hydrants, ordered to remove their clothes, dosed with water again
Eyeglasses suspected of being contaminated and not required for safe evacuation should be placed in a plastic bag and carried to the decontamination station. All contact lenses suspected of being contaminated should be placed in a plastic bag and carried to the decontamination station, b. removal of all external extraneous items from contact with the body. Such items include hearing aids, artificial limbs, jewelry, watches, toupees, and wigs,
...forced to strip to their underwear in public while they were sprayed with a solution of bleach and water in case they had been exposed to the lethal agent. Only many hours later did scientists at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Md., determine the package was a hoax.
stripped to their underwear on Rhode Island Avenue and decontaminated with a spray of bleach and water. More than 100 others were held inside the building for hours as specialists ran laboratory tests before concluding that the gelatin-like substance in the petri dish was harmless... Maryland and Virginia to establish a "medical strike team" made up of police, fire... Domestic Preparedness Training program, which involves half a dozen federal agencies, including the Defense and Energy departments, FBI, Public Health Service, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency. Managed by the Army's Chemical and Biological Defense Command, the program uses local officials as instructors on the assumption that they can relate well to their peers. Other parts of the course are taught by retired military officers with extensive chemical weapons experience.
strip and decon... being stripped and all clothing jewery and shoe
SPOKESMAN: Get them out of their clothes... What am I going to do with watches and rings and eyeglasses and all those valuable kinds of things? The problem we face is... fled by the time we get there. Getting these people corralled and headed toward a decon corridor is the most difficult task.
At the end of this decon corridor, tarps could be set up for privacy. Ambulatory victims may then undress and wash with soap and water and then dry and redress in large trash bags with holes cut out for the head and arms.

Since a suspected terrorist incident constitutes a crime scene, all clothing removed from victims will be evidence. This means the clothing needs to be bagged, tagged for later victim identification (like triage tags) and set aside in a secure location until the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- the lead law enforcement agency -- determines its disposition.

Undressing the victim will remove approximately 90% of the chemical agent. Hospital and public safety personnel should plan for the processing of these patients.

Most patients will be minimally contaminated or affected. Decontamination, aside from clothing removal, will not be necessary for vapor exposure unless a nerve agent has been involved. In all mass exposure situations, soap and water decontamination is sufficient. Transporting patients to a predesignated nonclinical site, such as a local high school or health club, may be the easiest way to decontaminate large numbers of victims.

f. Condemnation and seizure of property- Then any property is officially condemned or seized by government authorities in the interest of public health, the owner thereof shall not be entitled to compensation. http://www.bknet.org/laws/PD_856.html
Disinfectant carpets were installed over the weekend in airport hallways leading to Customs checkpoints, Claude Lavigne of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said yesterday. ``Everybody has to go through there, this is to disinfect their shoes,'' said Lavigne.
Shenzen Airport can be called an international sanitary airport by the People's Republic of China. China spent the equivalent of US$ 3 million over three years to upgrade the airp ort's sanitary facilities. The investment went towards the establishment in the airport of: a fully-equipped and staffed medical service facilities for the transport of infected persons and suspected cases an on-site fully equipped isolation and care clinic for infected persons and suspected cases a disease vector and bacteriological laboratory ... a vaccination centre for yellow fever ... The excellent facilities and permanent systems now in place at Shenzen Airport will help check the spread of infectious diseases imported into the country by travellers and will minimize health problems which could be generated in any airport with unsanitary conditions. Shenzen, having achieved this valuable honour, will serve as a model for 46 other Chinese airports," said Dr Song Mingchang, Deputy Administrator of the Chinese State Administration for the Entry/Exit Inspection and Quarantine. ... Committee of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) will hold a special informal meeting, starting on 22 June, on the IHR. This will be the formal start of a new WHO-WTO working relationship with a view to minimizing conflict and creating complementarity between WTO agreements and the IHR. http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/feat195.html
Public Health, Informed Consent and the Rotavirus Vaccine Jane M. Orient, MD If a physician does a procedure because, in his best judgment, it is indicated for an individual patient's benefit, he had better get informed consent if at all possible. Without it, he could face (and lose) a malpractice suit or even be charged with criminal assault. ... Under the Nuremberg Code, patients have the right to refuse treatment. Under the Oath of Hippocrates, physicians are obligated to do no harm (not even for the "good of society.") Physicians should insist on full, honest disclosure and open debate, and to use only persuasion rather than coercion if patients disagree with us. The recommendations of remote, nonaccountable experts must never be allowed to override the rights of patients. The reason for that is one of principle, even if the short-term results look favorable. In this instance, those upholding the standard of informed consent are vindicated even on utilitarian grounds.
LAPD Articles
Biological/Chemical Terrorism and SWAT Response By Chief of Police Bernard C. Parks & Captain Michael R. Hillmann ... The control of contaminated persons who refuse to cooperate with fire department or health services personnel is a serious issue, and the potential for such situations is not only possible but probable.
Be alert for perpetrators who may still be on the scene * Request Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team (as needed) to secure perimeters ... Suspect detention and apprehension * Coordinate for decontamination support if conducting mission inside warmx and hot zones ... Assist and direct all victims to decontamination and triage area ... Be alert for secondary devices, weapons, and perpetrators * Request police for security of personnel, victims, personal property, and collection and preservation of evidence ... Perpetrators may be among victims * Victim identification and tracking ... suspect apprehension, inside the warm zone. ...perpetrators seeking to... escape from, the incident scene.
The 1997 Summit of Eight in Denver
The world focused on Denver as eight leaders gathered in the Mile High City in June. At the same time, three National Medical Response Teams and the US Marine Corps CBIRF gathered at Fitzsimons Army Garrison and Camp George West for training and preparation even before the first world leader stepped off the plane. Considering the current world political climate, the teams had to be ready for the sobering possibility of a mass-casualty incident. These teams baked under the relentless sun, sweating inside airtight suits and layers of Tyvek while practicing decontamination and patient care . ... Practice removing patient clothing while in level B HazMat suit. The tool being used is a 'J'-knife, which removes contaminated clothing quickly and safely.

unwilling or uncooperative victims

provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a communicable stage
Remember that any covering can trap contamination... One of the victims was a young lady who was forced to remove all of her clothes as a result of the exposure and the resulting burning sensation on her skin. Firefighters, respecting her modesty allowed the lady to keep on her panties.... and ended up suffering 3rd degree burns...
During a review of several recent incidents specifying an anthrax threat, where no live spores were found, it was noted that potentially contaminated and displaced persons were quite upset about being "inconvenienced" with detention and quarantine procedures. ... What about the control of uncooperative, contaminated subject(s) at the scene? Based upon health department direction to law enforcement to "quarantine" persons exposed to biological/chemical agents, how much force should be used to prevent persons from leaving the scene and potentially contaminating others? slight variation (restraint of victims) restraining devices (flexcuffs, etc.) will quickly establish control over the situation. ...About the Author Captain Michael Hillmann is the commanding officer of LAPD's West Los Angeles Area.
No reasonable person wishes to sacrifice any of these principles, but it may be necessary to do so in a real incident if lives are to be saved. --Richard A. Falkenrath, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, December 2000
As part of the exercise, CBIRF members faced many unannounced obstacles including victims who spoke no English, were deaf or extremely uncooperative either screaming to be left alone or not be touched.
At the outset, peace officers should be acquainted with the law as it relates to the lawful detention of subjects for "quarantine" as directed by local health officials. Most states only address the authority for peace officers to lawfully detain persons in situations involving unusual or suspicious activity relating to criminal activity, and not based solely on a public safety or health threat. Such public safety law is usually reserved for the local Director of Health Services.
Law enforcement agencies may also become taxed by assisting with an ordered quarantine, in addition to maintaining public order and conducting an investigation into the incident.
Emergency planners should be aware that the release of any CW/BW agent is likely to induce a psychological reaction on the part of a largely unprotected civilian population, and that problems with crowd control, rioting, and other opportunistic crime could be anticipated. ... the need for rapid and thorough decontamination is mandatory. It is strongly recommended that no contaminated person or vehicle be allowed to leave the scene of a chemical release...
It is recommended that if current state/local law does not authorize peace officers to detain persons for public health or safety reasons involving biological and/or chemical terrorism, then obvious legislative amendments should be sought.
Patients have the right to refuse treatment and/or transport if they are of legal age and are competent. Competence is defined as the capacity or ability to understand the nature and effects of one's acts or decisions. A person is considered to be competent until proven otherwise. There are situations, however, in which the interests of the general public outweigh an individual's right to liberty: 1.The individual is threatening self-harm or suicide. 2.The individual presents a threat to the community because of a contagious disease or other physical dangerousness.
responders would need to corral those trying to flee the scene because exposure to toxic chemicals can cause serious health effects.
... Janet Reno Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice ... Require mandatory medical examination of exposed persons... Require exposed persons to accept mandatory vaccinations... Seize and destroy contaminated property... participate in the modification of existing laws and regulations designed to protect health and ensure safety in case of a public health emergency or hazardous biological, chemical, or radiological event...
(1) The Council may, if satisfied that any person, or the clothing of any person, is verminous and if such person consents to be removed to a cleansing station, cause such person to be removed to a cleansing station and cleansed as to his person and clothing.

(2) If such person does not so consent the Council may apply to the sheriff, and the sheriff, if satisfied, on oral evidence of the facts set forth in the application, and that it is expedient to do so, may make an order for the removal of such person to a cleansing station by such officer of the Council as may be specified in the order and for the detention of such person therein for such period, and subject to such conditions, as may be specified in the order, to enable him to be cleansed as to his person and clothing.

(3) The cleansing of females under this section shall be carried out only by a woman registered medical practitioner or by a woman duly authorised by the Council.

28. Removal to cleansing stations of dirty and verminous persons

Where a cleansing station is provided within the district of a local authority or within a reasonable distance therefrom, any person within that district certified by a medical officer of health, school medical inspector or other medical practitioner, or by a certificated health inspector, to be dirty or verminous may, on order of the medical officer of health, be removed, together with his clothing and bedding, to such cleansing station and be cleansed therein.

29. Removal orders

An order made under section twenty-four or twenty-eight may be addressed to any duly authorized officer of a local authority or any police officer. Any person who wilfully obstructs the execution of, or fails or refuses to comply with, any such order shall be guilty of an offence.

...emergency decontamination shower station which can serve up to 750 people an hour
Public health authorities possess three overlapping powers of detention: isolation of known infectious persons, quarantine of healthy persons exposed to disease, and civil commitment (compulsory hospitalization) for care and treatment.
allow officials to detain people involuntarily if... If the state can show "clear and convincing evidence" to a judge that exposed or infected people are a significant threat to public health, officials would be authorized to isolate and involuntarily compel medical treatment for them. ... Cremation is viewed as essential
victims must be collected in the hot zone. ... If victims are allowed to wander about, the clean side of the decontamination area will become contaminated thereby negating any benefit. The first step of decontamination is containment. Once contained, the victims should disrobe, and physically remove any observable contamination from the skin. Clothing must be accumulated deposited on the downhill, downstream, and downwind portion of the hot zone to prevent Â~Soff-gassingÂ~T. Off-gassing is the continued exposure of victims from vapors contained upon their clothing. Simply disrobing victims is 85-90% effective at removing a vapor exposure. Victims may typically be left in their undergarments.

Pleasant submission (luxury beach resort or quarantine spa)

we just want to ask people who have the symptoms to join us at the most luxurious beach resort we can find, around which we are going to throw a ten-foot wall, reinforced by guards with nonviolent means of stopping people who want to leave.

Medical misconduct

economic boom for the pharmaceutical companies - which they also control. ... they create the problem before they offer a solution to the problem ... non-lethal warfare. Where you don't kill populations like in a bomb or a gunshot but you make them sick. You then make them dependent on pharmaceuticals which are actually a military-pharmaceutical complex run by the same players - the global elite - and then ultimately these populations become enslaved to the pharmaceuticals ... killing people slowly, and in the process they are making vast fortunes off of humanity's suffering.

Victims as suspects

Expect modesty to be a serious issue. As time and resources permit, use tents and screens to provide separate decontamination sites for men and women. ... The perpetrators may be the first victims.
suspects may be among the victims treated by the medical system. This further increases the importance of collecting and tracking information on everyone from the incident. ... decontamination to casualties known or suspected of being contaminated ... some citizens may slip through ... As victims process through decontamination, they may be found in possession of contraband or weapons
Some fear that if terrorists got their hands on this supply, they could start a smallpox epidemic with just a single infected person -- a "smallpox martyr."
Preserve evidence as much as possible, realizing that when you neutralize the source of the hazard, you may be destroying evidence that could be used later in apprehending and prosecuting the perpetrators.
All personnel should be capable of chemical defense and decontamination. The use of nonlethal chemicals for crowd control or to subdue isolated small opposition elements might be feasible, but the panelists were very divided on this issue.
conflicting needs to prepare for mass casualties and to facilitate evidence collection were bound together in establishing a concept of consequence management
People to be considered include casualties; bystanders and sightseers; military and civilian response personnel; and residents, business employees and customers in the contaminated area. ... Therefore, a gym or other facility with dressing rooms and high capacity showers may be appropriate for processing people.
Everyone who walked through the east-west corridor... was rounded up... Those who might have been exposed to the powder were bused to the college's athletic center. There they were stripped of their clothes, books, backpacks and cellphones, all of which were confiscated.
April 1997 -- Several DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers became upset with instruction that they undergo decontamination. The officers had become aware that the media was broadcasting live pictures from cameras positioned on top of a nearby building. The officers refused to disrobe and undergo decontamination. One of the officers struck the EMS Lieutenant assigned to the quarantine area. ... This incident demonstrates the importance of multi-agency cooperation under the unified command structure during major incidents. ... While federal resources may be necessary to mitigate a chemical/biological incident, local public safety agencies will be the first on the scene. Advanced plans must be made for coordinated interagency and intergovernmental cooperation during response.
TEAM-1's decontamination trailer Hamilton, Ontario-based HazMat emergency responder, TEAM-1 Environmental Services Corp., 20-foot long Haulmark cargo trailer; sealed unit with three-stage decontamination shower system.
TOWARD A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR COMBATING TERRORISM ... The victims' decontamination process entailed their being stripped and scrubbed down with a diluted hypochlorite (bleach) solution. Their personal effects (e.g., clothing, wallets, keys, etc.), considered both contaminated and evidence, were confiscated and sealed. These items could not be unsealed and/or released until their safety had been confirmed.
The U. S. Marine Corps' team, however, can also search for and extract victims from a contaminated area. In contrast, the primary function of the National Medical Response Teams is to decontaminate and treat victims after they have been extracted
Although you might never consider it, but bio-terrorism is something many state leaders think about a great deal. ... The unit also keeps an eye on anti-government groups
Boston, MA, in preparation of a Weapons of Mass Destruction incident, Brigham and Women's Hospital has opened the nation's only decontamination unit designed to treat victims of biological terrorism.
workers take off their personal clothes. Workers then enter the second section of the change room via a one-way turnstile gate.
contain a civil population with force in the event of an attack using a highly infectious agent.
Contaminated clothing that would normally be removed over the head (e.g., undershirts) should be cut off. ... eyeglasses in plastic or composite frames should be placed in an agent-impermeable bag labeled with the individual's name and an identification number for later disposition when and if resources can be made available without impeding the decontamination of people. (Suggested disposition: Some eyeglass wearers would be significantly impaired without corrective lenses. Thus, we recommend special treatment for eyeglasses in porous frames such as plastic or plastic composite. We suggest that, if time and resources permit, the lenses be removed from such frames, decontaminated by soaking for 5 minutes in undiluted household bleach and rinsing with plain water, remounted in uncontaminated frames, and returned to their owners); ... writing directly on the chest or forehead with an indelible marker) with an indication of the specific treatment that was applied to the individual and the time at which decontamination was completed; j. each individual processed through the station should be provided with a certificate indicating (1) a description of the decontamination actions taken, (2) the time decontamination was completed, (3) the time the individual was released from the observation area...
The city has taken steps to establish decontamination centers at various undisclosed locations, he said. "The equipment is in place. ... "We have to be able to shut down the hospital, filter people through a central intake where we can shower and wash them down,"
told they must undress, go to the bathhouse,... they were ordered to remove their clothes. The men undressed in one barrack, the women in the other. ... did not want to undress and they were undressed by force

historical decon (delousing, etc.)

In the courtyard, the people were told that, since they were going to wash and would be disinfected, all their documents, valuables and money must be deposited in the "camp safe" in a hut in the yard. They were also told that, after the shower, their belongings would be returned, and they would go out to work. They all had to undress.
The people were told that they had to take a bath, that their clothes had to be disinfected and that they could hand in any valuable items beforehand to be registered....
Gleykh, her sister and the boy are ordered to strip to their underclothes. They are searched for money and documents and they are herded out along the trenches.
All of them were killed. They also had to undress themselves, they did not cry, that's what he told me, they were only sad, and they were executed by shooting, one after the other.
The Cleansing Service was to clean people who had been exposed, through showers by mobile units with special vans and lorries. Clothing had to be boiled, if exposed, for varying lengths of time dependant on the material. Civilian clothing was the responsibility of the Ministry of Health.
we were searched and even our wedding rings were taken from us. Our coats were taken off... we had not been disinfected. At night we were locked in the bathing room, without being able to lie down. The next day we had to run some 8 kilometers to the disinfection station. On the way we were severely beaten, and one of the boys who could not withstand the beating died.
Nazis maintained strict secrecy about ... "Entlausungsanlage," which means "delousing station" in English. The Nazis used Zyklon B, an insecticide, for gassing the Jews, the same poison they used in the camp to kill body lice on the clothing in an effort to stop typhus epidemics. ... undressing room which has narrow wooden boards over the concrete floor. Then you enter the shower room, a large room with rows of exposed water pipes and sprinkler type shower heads on the ceiling; ...that prisoners were given a shower before gassing ... A sign on the building says Bad und Desinfektion (Bath and Disinfection), which the guidebook says was "to lull the vigilance of those condemned to death." ...gas chamber next to the shower room was "a makeshift chamber... Through this window, the killing process could be observed by an SS guard standing in the small adjoining observation room... who pumped doses of gas from steel cylinders into the chambers and watched through a small grated window (25 x 15 cm), the behavior of the victims After the Nazis invaded Poland and took over the country, they initially put the Polish Jews into ghettos, using the excuse, that had been used for centuries, that the Jews were responsible for spreading disease. Later, these ghettos became a convenient way to concentrate the Jews in one location for eventual transport to the concentration camps for extermination in Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." ... delousing station where clothing was disinfected with Zyklon B, the same gas used in the homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz.
...required to bathe at least once a week, when they could be caught." There was a good community bathhouse, but the people had "formed a horror of it" from being compelled to bathe there... The book deals at great length with the difficulties American troops encountered when they tried a variety of methods to induce people simply to bathe and have their clothes deloused...

The difficulties were illustrated by the following passage about the efforts of one American officer...

The school children were next bathed and deloused. Gorman observing that "if the older people were as enthusiastic as these children, typhus would no longer be a dread in Poland." Unfortunately, the older people were content to live in the unimaginable dirt and filth, one old woman having been heard to cry out, "death here in my hovel rather than the torture of bathing."

words can mean ANYTHING or NOTHING, depending upon how they wish to be used; for example "Delousing Station," or "Shower Room" can mean "EXTERMINATION BY POISONOUS GAS." For example: "The Jewish Problem" can mean "Racial Genocide"; ...You INVENT your own terminology to cover up SIN.
Towards the end of the 19th Century Germany developed a number of procedures for the delousing and disinfection of people and their clothing. These involved showering, smearing the body with petroleum or other substances to kill bugs, and steaming or boiling belongings.86 The application of the these procedures soon came to a test in the 1880's.

Here a great many men and women, dressed in white, received us, the women attending the women and girls of the passengers, and the men the others. ...those white-clad Germans shouting commands, always accompanied with "Quick! Quick!" -- the confused passengers obeying all orders like meek children, only questioning now and then what was to be done with them. ...strange-looking people driving us about like dumb animals, helpless and unresisting; children we could not see crying in a way that suggested terrible things; ourselves driven into a little room where a great kettle was boiling on a little stove; our clothes taken off, our bodies rubbed with a slippery substance that could be any bad thing; In 1895, as part of this concept of "decontaminating" immigrants, it was quite common to have a disinfection process for baggage and clothing, and even a set of shower stalls in which people went in and often were sprayed with disinfectant.

related to decon:

Personal property is collected and bagged for later collection and all clothing is taken and washed and dried. This procedure also ensures (albeit discreetly) that weapons and alcohol are not taken into the shelter. Clients are then showered, dressed in pyjamas and given a drink of cordial to aid re-hydration. Clients then go to bed where they are constantly monitored by shelter staff. Upon waking, clients are dressed, provided with a substantial breakfast, returned their personal property and sent on their way.

critics of decon:

Emergency powers proposal would usher in martial law under guise of "public health" ... power to arrest, transport, quarantine, drug, and vaccinate anyone suspected of carrying a potentially infectious disease. The Boston Globe originally broke the story ... forwarded to medical freedom activists throughout the country who responded en masse in outspoken opposition to the totalitarian proposal. The article was quickly removed from the Globe's website.
With all this attention and money, you might think that bioterrorism has taken a huge toll in lives in the United States and other countries.

Think again.

In the United States, the number of people who have died due to bioterrorism attacks in the last 100 years is exactly-- zero. And in the whole world, there have been only three documented incidents. ... Bioterrorism could become the phantom menace of the new millennium.

CONGRESS SNEAKS NEW DOMESTIC-TERRORISM BILL... most of the amendments to the original law had been based on bogus drug issues. Now, he said, that issue seems to have shifted to so-called terrorist attacks, or at least the threat of them.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-H. L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken
The Boogeyman is passe. The monster under the bed is old hat. There's a much better way now to scare people. One simple word will do it. In fact, this one word has caused several hundred threats and hoaxes in the past year. Which word is this?

Anthrax.

You just keep remembering: One World Gov't, NWO is the goal. To get there we need crisis, termoil, destruction of the Constitution, cival unrest, no borders, no soverign nations which will cause all people to call out for help from a superior power.
Critics are denouncing recent congressional changes to the Posse Comitatus Act that will allow a broader use of U.S. military forces in a domestic law... 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits federal troops from participating in domestic law enforcement activities under most circumstances.
Sure...all part of a grand disinfo scheme designed to get the public accustomed to greater government presence/control....
And all these 'warnings' and 'alerts' regarding a potential attack any day now just gets the public geared up to expect...heck, welcome even...such 'teams'...
police brutality is a naitonwide epidemic (reference to the stolen lives project).
"identity cleansing": refugees expelled toward Albania were frequently stripped of their identity documents and forced to remove the license plates from their cars and tractors before being permitted to cross the border.

Concentration camps in the United States:

>Meanwhile, while our regular army is starved for funds, American Special >Forces are receiving massive amounts of funding and being trained to go up >against the American people. Although the training against U.S. civilian >targets has been going on since the mid 1990 s, this activity stepped up >dramatically during 1999 with the exercises in Kingsville, Texas (burning >out a police station); Anniston, Alabama (military takeover of a civilian >airport, with power cut to 200 homes in the area); Hebron, Maryland >(house-to-house weapons confiscation); and Operation Urban Warrior in >California (military units from several nations rounding up Americans and >putting them into concentration camps). Actual footage of this activity is >shown in Alex Jones documentary Police >State 2000.
Given the government's swift action in grounding all civil aircraft... "hoax threats" this is what would happen: 1) All exposed people would be decontaminated on site providing the threat was known and the site quarantined. 2) The credibility of the threat would be ascertained. If it was deemed to be real or possibly real, all exposed individuals would be removed to prophylaxis and treatment centers set up from highly portable, self-contained, HEPA-filter gear remote from civilian areas (probably a military base). Transport to these centers would not be elective; they are protective detention camps. ... affected population would be watched for development of disease. Regrettably, for large numbers of exposed people ... samples might be sent to off site locations for further evaluation, such as the CDC in Atlanta, or government facilities which few civilians know exist and if they do, they aren't talking. ... All human and animal remains aside from tissue and fluid samples for medical/scientific evaluation would be cremated. End of discussion. ... Just as the President issued orders to shoot down the civilian jet liner headed toward the White House and the Pentagon, similar orders would be activated automatically to deal with any unauthorized personnel trying to leave the quarantined area. ... detention centers will be set up. All individuals exposed to the etiologic agent or deemed to present a risk of transmission will be taken to detention centers where they will be triaged according to their condition. ... They will not be called detention centers; they will be called treatment and prophylaxis centers. In reality they will be death camps.
most average American?s don?t have a taste for crusades of global conquest... Unless... there?s a sudden terrifying threat. ... imaginary catastrophic device that had been so entirely concocted out of thin air, so heavily promoted in the media and ultimately steered to what will almost certainly be the dramatic conclusion of a self fulfilling media stoked prophecy - to be fabricated first in our imaginations then ignited in the real world - It is the dirty bomb. ... Internment Camps For Citizens
Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants"...
FEMA is moving ahead with plans to create temporary cities that could handle millions of Americans
plan to leaglly detain millions of American citizens ... the quarantine of citizens that have been exposed to a communicable disease. ... mass relocation of large populations for quarantine safety. ... FEMA allows the White House to suspend constitutional government upon declaration of a national emergency. It allows creation of a nonelected national government. The FEMA laws were made available by the president when he declared that we are in a national state of emergency indefinitely on 9/14. ... Ex Order # 11004: The US government has the right to seize all housing and finance authorities in order to establish "Relocation Designated Areas" and to force abandonment of areas classified as "unsafe". To enforce this further the Center for Disease Control (CDC) led a process to develop a "Model State Emergency Health Powers Act" that was completed and became active on October 31,2001. ... in the event of a contaminated population, the CDC will be able to force masses of people suspected of exposure to broadly-defined "infectious diseases" and biological weapons into concentration camp-like holding facilities for drugging, vaccination, and quarantine, without any viable legal recourse. ... The first step in moving people to detainment centers by way of quarantine of communicable diseases is to actually have a bio-warfare threat and then attack. Thus the Anthrax attacks have opened the American psyche to the possibility of this previously unthinkable occurrance.
The end of the Cold war and the creation of Rex 84 Bravo has allowed for many military bases to be closed down and turned into prisons. Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which can be implemented to move citizens to the camps. ... Seattle/Tacoma - SeaTac Airport: fully operational federal transfer center
Patients will be decontaminated prior to transport. ... designated Points of Departure (POD) for mass casualty victims, such as Boeing Field or Seatac International Airport that will be exercised in the event of a mass casualty incident.
Once they realize America is doomed and collapsing, they will herd millions of people into concentration camp facilities to protect the uninfected.... "Do we believe the World Health Organization, which was managed by a former SS officer during the vaccination program, is believable when they claim smallpox is eradicated?"
much larger in terms of numbers initially that would cause us to move more quickly into trying to set up special quarters for isolation of patients to make sure that we have enough in the way of space.
forcibly quarantined... quarantine centers... preferably dedicated facilities... Department of Defense to run "dedicated smallpox treatment centers"... cancellation all public gatherings
Health scare voids Americans' rights? ... Someone sent them an anonymous letter claiming to contain anthrax. ... Someone there apparently thought this was an opportune time to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law. The building was immediately surrounded by armed police, who swooped in to quarantine the people inside. Those inside were made virtual prisoners and not allowed to leave. If this had happened in Nazi Germany or Bosnia, we would all be thankful it could never happen here. Then, at least a dozen members of one of the city's hazardous materials response teams entered the building in white decontamination suits and forced the people inside to remove all their clothes and placed them in plastic bags. Then they were marched outside to a portable, enclosed outdoor shower in the parking lot and scrubbed down for up to 10 minutes each. ... These clinic employees were stripped not only of their clothes but also of their civil rights, by a government that had gotten too big, too powerful. This is a wake-up call for all Americans. If it could happen in Indianapolis, it could happen anywhere. Accused of no crime, they were humiliated, degraded, dehumanized and treated worse than common criminals. For a 24-hour period, they became non-persons. They apparently had no protection under the law, and it could all happen again with the next prank letter. ... It is a shame the "authorities" who were responsible for this drill cannot be prosecuted criminally for their actions, run through the county jail system and receive the same shabby treatment they had levied on their victims.
imposing isolation or quarantine restrictions to prevent infected persons or animals from spreading disease or to allow for administration of appropriate medical countermeasures; even if such measures might lead to exposure of unexposed persons or animals who happen to be within the contaminated area; ... impose and enforce quarantine regulations and the need for mass prophylactic treatment;
Isolation and quarantine are now being discreetly reviewed by state officials across the country. ... Designated hospitals would admit patients, and federal agents, as well as police and military troops, would descend on the location of the outbreak.
Entire blocks were cordoned off with barbed wire and guarded by police -- essentially creating health prison camps.

America's leaders are in fact considering such drastic steps if an outbreak were to erupt. Just two weeks before Sept. 11, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted a blueprint for fighting an outbreak: They call it the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response project.

Courts have long held that local officials may cordon off an area or establish a quarantine or erect checkpoints for persons and/or vehicles leaving an area. Both the need to prevent escape of suspected criminals or carriers of contagion and the individual's diminished right of privacy when on foot or on a vehicle support these rulings.
power hungry official puts all suspected carriers of the disease in quarantine with political enemies of the state. The concentration camps are more deadly than the disease
Drawing upon the then "new science" of public health for justification, the city's officials argued that the mere presence of germs was enough to warrant the deprivation of individual human rights

Authority loves a plague

French philosopher Michel Foucault once said that authority loves a plague (as an opportunity to quiet civil unrest).

Had Foucault been around in our times, he might have said authority loves anthrax hoaxes as an opporunity to test emergency preparedness...

Haz-mat workers carried in bottles of Clorox bleach just before noon and geared up in white suits and green-and-yellow rubber boots before they entered the third and fourth floors of the building to hose workers down. ... If this turned out to be a hoax, it was a great drill. Today we learned that, yes, we know what we're doing. That was the positive side to this."

showers and decon facilities for handing civil disturbances:

since the events on 11 September 2001, Central Government had made the Fire Service directly responsible for mass decontamination. ... for showers and decontamination facilities for use in any civil disturbance.

Intelligent plumbing:

us6038331 Abstract An apparatus and method for monitoring hand washing wherein a subject's hands are checked after he or she has applied soap or detergent and spread it over the front and back of his or her hands. An optical image of the subject's hands is digitized and compared, pixel by pixel, with a reference feature that distinguishes the soap and a report is generated indicating whether the subject's hands are covered with enough soap or detergent to receive a satisfactory report.
us6238337 Abstract The invention detects signs of emerging illness, such as flu, skin cancer, backache, etc., among the general population and individuals. The detection of symptoms of illness is performed through the utilization of embedded devices equipped with various sensors, such as cameras, glasses, wrist watches, TVs, fire warning systems, and having the ability to analyze the detected information and to transmit that information via wireless and regular communication channels to a central server for a more detailed analysis and possible action. The information about locally detected symptoms is gathered at central location and processed to ascertain whether there is a new epidemic of a flu, therefore enabling early shipment of a flu vaccine which prevents the spread of the disease. ... Another example of the placement of the embedded devices may be a target individual's bathroom. A camera with an embedded device having a processor programmed to take daily images of the target individual's skin regions while the target individual is habitually following a toilet routine. The daily images of same skin regions are then compared to detect changes signaling skin cancer concerns. Furthermore, this locally embedded cancer detection system may pass gathered information to a central server for a more complex analysis of detected symptoms and for the purpose of collection of statistical data. The central server may have the ability to collect statistical data from many reporting locations thereby having an ability to associate cases of disease with possible regional and global environmental factors.

Critique of smallpox preparedness

Public health officials want to shut down roads and airports, herd people into sports stadiums and, if needed, quarantine entire cities ... The plan, drafted at the request of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, could give states sweeping new powers. ... force people to submit to examinations 
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The Government Is Telling Us That Terrorists Are All Around Us. The Solution They Say: Submit to a Highly Dictatorial Police State ... Talk about Mass Conditioning and Training Us: Jones Remembered a Lone Gunmen TV Show He'd Seen on FOX, Where the Government Tries to Remote Control a Plane to Crash into the World Trade Center FOX -- Lone Gunmen Pilot Episode ... Story Documenting Bin Laden's Ties to the CIA (from MSNBC) Bin Laden comes home to roost His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story