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Facts About Hantaviruses: What You Need to Know to Prevent the Disease Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
"Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that may be carried by some rodents. Some hantaviruses can cause a rare but deadly disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The disease is called HPS for short."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service
This National Weather Service webpage offers an online web tool. "Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) is a new and essential component of our Climate, Water, and Weather Services. AHPS is a web-based suite of accurate and information-rich forecast products. They display the magnitude and uncertainty of occurrence of floods or droughts, from hours to days and months, in advance. These graphical products are useful information and planning tools for many economic and emergency managers. These new products will enable government agencies, private institutions, and individuals to make more informed decisions about risk based policies and actions to mitigate the dangers posed by floods and droughts."
United States. National Weather Service
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Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Investigation [website]
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a multistate meningitis outbreak of fungal infections among patients who have received a steroid injection of a potentially contaminated product into the spinal area. This form of meningitis is not contagious. The investigation also includes fungal infections associated with injections in a peripheral joint space, such as a knee, shoulder or ankle."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Future of Multilateral Nuclear Energy Cooperation in Southeast Asia [presentation]
This presentation provides an overview of the nuclear energy plans of various Southeast Asian countries, challenges to nuclear energy development in the region, and the principles, benefits, and goals of multilateral cooperation. Note: This document has been added to the Homeland Security Digital Library in agreement with the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC) as part of the PASCC collection. Permission to download and/or retrieve this resource has been obtained through PASCC.
United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Advanced Systems and Concepts Office
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North Korea's Ballistic Missile Market in Decline as Nuclear Opportunities Emerge
"On April 5, 2009, a long-range rocket, described as a satellite launcher, took off from North Korea's test facility at Musudan-ri. On May 25, the North Korean government announced its second test of a nuclear device. Finding these acts to have disregarded the demands of the Security Council's 2006 Resolution 1718 that North Korea 'not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile,' the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1874 on June 12, 2009. Security Council Resolution 1718 had directed UN member states to prevent transfers - either to or from North Korea- of ballistic missile or nuclear technology, luxury goods, and certain types of conventional weapons. Security Council Resolution 1874 broadened these prohibitions to cover the transfer of all weapons types. In strong language, it charged member states with seizing and disposing of all such shipments. Member states were also reminded to report these incidents to the '1718 Committee' set up to track enforcement. [...] The market for ballistic missiles is dwindling. Deliveries of complete, 'turnkey' ballistic missile systems have long been in decline, and the demand for North Korean-made components now seems diminished as well. The erosion of customer interest in its missile technology does not mean that North Korea has no future as an arms exporter; its business in conventional arms appears brisk. An interest in nuclear technology, especially from Middle Eastern customers, has already begun to emerge. But for North Korean missile sales, at least, the future does not look especially bright." Note: This document has been added to the Homeland Security Digital Library in agreement with the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC) as part of the PASCC collection. Permission to download and/or retrieve this resource has been obtained through PASCC.
United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
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Window of Opportunity for Aceh, Indonesia Post-Tsunami: Historic Continuity, Current Points of Interest, and a Pattern - Output of the Cultural Simulation Model
"'This document is a consolidation of activity from the current and historic news flow as understood by IndaSea's Cultural Simulation Model (CSM) for the Situation in Aceh, Indonesia. The CSM uses news filtering, a knowledge acquisition and contextual memory method, which we refer to as a 'Cultural Construct,' as well as interaction by modelers, subject matter experts (SMEs), and IndaSea Cultural Analysts as the basis for its output. A Cultural Analyst is someone trained in some aspect of human behavior and able to structure that information in the CSM. The Cultural Construct is not limited in the type of data it can use to represent human behavior including language, actions, personality traits, abstract concepts and the like.' [...] In its current iteration the Cultural Construct was tailored to focus on Goals and Threats for each of the participating Actors and for the interaction between Actors in Aceh. For the purpose of this paper, an 'Actor' is defined as a subset of the Cultural Construct representing a particular entity that can be a person, group, concept or culture, particularly as it relates to a social Situation. Some examples of Actors in this case are the Achenese people, the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), the Indonesian Government, the Indonesian Military (TNI), and NGOs. Each Actor's cultural point of view is represented in the model. The cultural point of view includes how each Actor sees, defines, and responds to a Situation; in essence it is how they perceive and interact with the world." Note: This document has been added to the Homeland Security Digital Library in agreement with the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC) as part of the PASCC collection. Permission to download and/or retrieve this resource has been obtained through PASCC.
United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Advanced Systems and Concepts Office
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What is Mitigation?
"Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. This is achieved through risk analysis, which results in information that provides a foundation for mitigation activities that reduce risk, and flood insurance that protects financial investment. FEMA's Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and implements a variety of programs authorized by Congress to reduce losses that may result from natural disasters. Effective Mitigation efforts can break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Building Science
From the webpage: "The FEMA Building Science Branch provides technical services for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA). The branch develops and produces multi-hazard mitigation guidance that focuses on creating disaster-resilient communities to reduce loss of life and property. Building Science Branch activities include deploying Mitigation Assessment Teams to conduct post-disaster engineering investigations for both man-made and natural hazard events. Building Science takes a lead role in developing publications, guidance materials, tools, technical bulletins, and recovery advisories that incorporate the most up-to-date building codes, floodproofing requirements, seismic design standards, and wind design requirements for new construction and the repair of existing buildings. In addition to providing technical support for the development and adoption of model building codes and standards, Building Science Branch provides technical support for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for public and private sector stakeholders, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP), and pursuing outreach strategies for communicating Building Science issues."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio
The FEMA Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio webpage offers the following links: "Learn from Other's Success"; "Share Your Success"; and "Additional Resources." Users can also sign up for best practices e-mail updates.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Mitigation Assessment Team Program
From the webpage: "Two important components of hazard mitigation are: (1) Assessing the vulnerability of buildings, and (2) Increasing building resistance to damage caused by hazard events. This increased damage resistance is achieved through improvements in codes and standards, designs, methods, and materials used for new construction and post-disaster repair and recovery. The Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) Program is an integral part of this process."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Drought and Drought Assistance
"This page provides resources and information related to the current drought crisis from across the Government. Throughout much of the country, communities are struggling with one of the worst droughts to strike the U.S. in decades. The lack of rain and high temperatures have done considerable damage to crops -- particularly those in the Midwest. USDA [United States Department of Agriculture] and other federal agencies are taking steps to help farmers, ranchers, and small businesses wrestling with this crisis."
United States. Department of Agriculture
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Yale Project on Climate Change Communication [website]
This is the official website for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. From the project's mission statement: "The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication: 1. Conducts research on public climate knowledge, risk perceptions, decision-making and behavior; 2. Designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions; 3. Empowers educators and communicators with the knowledge and tools to more effectively engage their audiences." This site offer, reports, videos, publications and other research links related to climate change.
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
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Los Zetas Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization [presentation]
This presentation examines various aspects of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization, including its strategic and operational plan, its command and control structure, its personnel and demographics, the importance of geography and locality, and the types of weapons utilized by members.
National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.)
Anderson, Jim
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State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy Program: Urban Area Jurisdiction Handbook
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) has refined the State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy (SHSAS) process that was originally established in Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 to assess threats, vulnerabilities, capabilities, and needs related to preparedness for weapons of mass destruction terrorism incidents at the state and local level. The FY 2003 ODP SHSAS process will allow state and local urban area jurisdictions to update their assessment data to reflect post-September 11, 2001, realities, as well as to identify progress on the priorities outlined in their initial homeland security strategies. As identified in the National Strategy for Homeland Security, the challenge in securing the nation from terrorist attacks is 'to develop interconnected and complementary systems that are reinforcing rather than duplicative and that ensure essential requirements are met.'"
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office for Domestic Preparedness
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United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs [website]
"The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. UNOOSA serves as the secretariat for the General Assembly's only committee dealing exclusively with international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space: the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). UNOOSA is also responsible for implementing the Secretary-General's responsibilities under international space law and maintaining the United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space. Through the United Nations Programme on Space Applications, UNOOSA conducts international workshops, training courses and pilot projects on topics that include remote sensing, satellite navigation, satellite meteorology, tele-education and basic space sciences for the benefit of developing nations. It also maintains a 24-hour hotline as the United Nations focal point for satellite imagery requests during disasters and manages the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER). UNOOSA is the current secretariat of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG). UNOOSA also prepares and distributes reports, studies and publications on various fields of space science and technology applications and international space law. Documents and reports are available in all official languages of the United Nations through this website. UNOOSA is located at the United Nations Office at Vienna, Austria."
United Nations. Office for Outer Space Affairs
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NASA Orbital Debris Program Office [website]
"The NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] Orbital Debris Program Office, located at the Johnson Space Center, is the lead NASA center for orbital debris research. It is recognized world-wide for its initiative in addressing orbital debris issues. The NASA Orbital Debris Program Office has taken the international lead in conducting measurements of the environment and in developing the technical consensus for adopting mitigation measures to protect users of the orbital environment. Work at the Center continues with developing an improved understanding of the orbital debris environment and measures that can be taken to control debris growth."
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CCTSO) [website]
From the website: "CTTSO [Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office] fields rapid combating terrorism solutions to meet continually evolving requirements defined by end users. […] Working closely with over 100 Government agencies, State, and local government, law enforcement organizations, and national first responders, CTTSO leverages technical expertise, operational objectives, and interagency sponsor funding. This collective approach to resource and information sharing positions the CTTSO to gather front line requirements that service multiple users -- a distinct advantage in the combating terrorism community. […] The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) operates as a program office under the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC)."
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office
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National Business Emergency Operations Center
"In a crisis, close collaboration between the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the private sector is critical to protecting citizens and rebuilding communities. The National Business Emergency Operation Center (NBEOC) is a groundbreaking new virtual organization that serves as FEMA's clearinghouse for two-way information sharing between public and private sector stakeholders in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. The goal of the NBEOC is to take FEMA's current Private Sector Representative (PSR) -- a private sector emergency manager serving a 90-day rotation in the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) - role during NRCC activation and provide it greater structure and a deeper bench."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Army National Guard Strategic Imperatives
"As the nation enters a time of budgetary pressure, the Army National Guard has been aggressively structuring itself to meet 21st century challenges. Diminished funding is a reality, even in the midst of a dynamic global threat environment. Despite this, the Army National Guard remains resolute and committed to the defense of the nation… a pledge we have honored since 1636. Following more than a decade of conflict, the Army National Guard is now an operational force; highly trained, experienced and professional. We are flexible, responsive and ready to take on a wide array of missions. It follows that, for the good of the nation, we must preserve the proficiency we have gained over the past decade. With this in mind I have identified five strategic imperatives for our organization. This is our way forward. Pursuing and attaining these essential goals will shape our decisions, channel our actions, determine our future… and ensure our continued operational excellence."
United States. National Guard Bureau
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PHMSA Glossary
"The following are terms used through the site, industry, PHMSA, and the Hazardous Materials and Pipeline pages and documents. Terms include general, PHMSA-specific, business or legal, and Hazardous Materials or Pipeline-specific."
United States. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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FluAid 2.0
"FluAid is a test version of software created by programmers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is designed to assist state and local level planners in preparing for the next influenza pandemic by providing estimates of potential impact specific to their locality. FluAid provides only a range of estimates of impact in terms of deaths, hospitalizations, and outpatients visits due to pandemic influenza. The software cannot describe when or how people will become ill, nor how a pandemic may spread through a society over time."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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FluLabSurge 1.0
"FluLabSurge is a spreadsheet-based program designed to assist laboratory directors forecast demand for specimen testing during the next influenza pandemic (i.e., the surge in demand), and develop response plans. [...] FluLabSurge produces estimates of: a) the daily number of specimens that may be delivered to a laboratory for testing; and b) the testing capacity of that laboratory (e.g., how many samples can be tested per day or work shift) per pandemic transitional day found in each of the pandemic stages. FluLabSurge also helps the user produce a one-page plan showing how capacity will be used to meet user-defined testing goals (e.g., surveillance, strain identification, clinical diagnostics)."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Protective Actions
From the Document: "Protective Actions are research-based actions and advice that anyone can take to prepare for, keep safe during, and recover from a disaster. [...] FEMA develops Protective Actions research by evaluating peer-reviewed articles, determining messaging, and identifying key actions that can reduce harm and save lives. After FEMA develops Protective Actions messaging, it collaborates with hazard-specific subject matter experts who provide expert review. FEMA has completed an assessment of more than 380 Protective Actions based on 275 research studies and articles by subject matter experts covering 12 hazards and threats."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Individual and Community Preparedness Division
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Progress Report 2002: Global Defence against the Infectious Disease Threat
"This report [...]profiles trends in the incidence, prevalence, and control of all infectious disease groups - high mortality, neglected (disability-causing), and epidemic-prone - of major public health importance with the exception of AIDS and the vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood. These diseases are the responsibilities of other departments within WHO and the joint United Nations programme, UNAIDS, in which WHO is a partner. Problems caused by the overlap of AIDS with other infectious diseases, both geographically and epidemiologically, are covered in the present report. Vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood are the subject of a recent report available from WHO."
World Health Organization. Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
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Infectious Disease Threats, As We Enter the New Century: What Can we Do?: Congressional Briefing
Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide and the third leading cause of death in the United States. As the new century begins we are challenged by newly emerging infections and the decreasing effectiveness of our antibiotic arsenal. On June 21, 1999 the American Society for Microbiology held a special briefing in the Senate Hart Office Building. During the briefing, five scientific experts from both the public and private sectors outlined a number of the key infectious disease issues we are facing and suggested some of the critical steps that will be required to deal with those challenges during the century that lies ahead. This report includes the content discussed in the briefing.
American Society for Microbiology
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CIDRAP: Pandemic Influenza [website]
This website provides an overview of pandemic influenza. Sections on the website include the following: Agent, Laboratory Testing for Influenza, General Considerations, Historical Perspective, Pandemics of the 30th Century, Lessons from Past Pandemics, The Pandemic Severity Index, the Current H5N1 Threat, Vaccine Development, Use of Antiviral Agents, Community Mitigation Strategies, Pandemic Preparedness Planning, Hospital Pandemic Preparedness Planning, Infection Control Considerations, and References.
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
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U.S. Commitment to the Global Health Security Agenda: Toward a World Safe & Secure from Infectious Disease Threats
"The United States is strengthening Global Health Security, but no one country's effort alone can achieve this goal. The strategy to achieve Global Health Security is rooted in science and global partnerships based on three widely accepted concepts and nine objectives. Over the next five years the United States commits to working with at least 30 partner countries to advance model systems of Global Health Security, in the following specific areas:" Prevent, Detect, and Respond. This document outlines the current U.S. commitments to Global Health Security.
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary.
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Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [website]
"The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a cooperative program for vaccine safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after the administration of US licensed vaccines. This Web site provides a nationwide mechanism by which adverse events following immunization (AEFI) may be reported, analyzed and made available to the public. The VAERS Web site also provides a vehicle for disseminating vaccine safety-related information to parents/guardians, healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, state vaccine programs, and other constituencies."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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LLIS Lesson Learned: Point of Dispensing Planning: Establishing Safety Measures for Set-Up and Tear-Down Crews
"Point of dispensing (POD) managers should consider including injury prevention guidance for set-up and tear-down crews in POD plans. This will help to support staff members performing these physically demanding tasks and will inform them of appropriate safety techniques."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS); United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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CDC: Coronavirus
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) webpage includes information and resources on the Novel Coronavirus. The webpage includes the following sections: "Overview of Novel Coronavirus"; "Update, Case Definitions, & Guidance"; "Photos"; "Related Materials"; and "Updates".
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
