Bioterrorism
Study findings from University of New Mexico broaden understanding of bioterrorism
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 29th, 2007
A report, ""Med-X"a medical examiner surveillance model for bioterrorism and infectious disease mortality," is newly published data in Human Pathology. "We created a model surveillance system (Med-X) designed to enable medical examiners and coroners to recognize fatal infections of public health importance and deaths due to bioterrorism. All individuals who died in New Mexico and fell under medical examiner jurisdiction between November 23, 2000, and November 22, 2002, were prospectively evaluated using sets of surveillance symptoms and autopsy-based pathologic syndromes," scientists writing in the journal Human Pathology report.
"All infectious disease...
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