BW Overview
Droplet Sprayer, Respirable Aerosol, Liquid, Waterborne, Food, Vector, Human-to-Human transmission
What are Delivery Methods?
The quality of a disease or trait being able to be passed on from one person or organism to another.
What is Transmissibility?
The Japanese word for a Shinto shrine.
What is Jinja?
This sample collection method applies to suspicious visible powders that are amassed or dispersed in a limited area.
What are Bulk Samples?
Communicates OEH exposure, health risks, recommended controls, nd/or corrective actions to commanders, workplace supervisors, and affected individuals.
Who is Bioenvironmental Engineering?
Single-celled microorganisms, may form spores, invade tissue, cause inflammatory reaction or produce toxins.
What are General Characteristics of Bacteria?
The amount of a pathogenic agent that will cause an infection.
What is Infective Dose?
What is 3,776m or 12,388 ft?
This direct reading instrument detects the presence of proteins (indicative of biological matter) but may not identify which protein.
What is the HazmatID Elite?
Prophylaxis & vaccines, pharmaceutical treatment, infection control procedures.
What are Medical Countermeasures?
Naturally produced poisons, more toxic per weight than manmade chemical agents, nonvolatile, minimal absorption in intact skin, not prone to person-to-person transmission.
What are the general characteristics of toxins?
The period between exposure to an infectious agent and the appearance of the first symptoms.
What is Incubation Period?
The name given to Yokota AB by the Imperial Japanese Army.
What is Tama Army Airfield?
Capability to test suspected materials and surfaces for the presence of biological agents. 8 biological agents can be identified. Test takes 15 minutes to run.
What are Hand Held Assays (HHA)?
Renders bio-agents harmless by the use of disinfectants that may be a liquid, gas, or aerosol.
What is Chemical Decontamination?
Brucellosis, Epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens, food safety threats, glanders, melioidosis, Psittacosis, Q fever, Ricin toxin, Staphylococcal enterotoxin B, Typhus fever, Water Safety Threats.
What are Category B Biological Agents?
Duration in hours or days that biological agents remain viable outside of the host in the environment.
What is Persistence?
This was the name for Bioenvironmental Engineering from 1947 to 1964.
What is Sanitary and Industrial Hygiene Engineers?
OEH risks are communicated through this process to engage installation leadership in OEH exposure and hazard reduction and resource prioritization.
What is Risk Management?
What are administrative controls?
In Autumn of 2001,five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history.
What is the 2001 Anthrax Attack, Amerithrax?
Maximum human respiratory infection is a particle that falls within this size range.
What is 1 to 5 microns?
This college is where Maj E earned his Master's degree in Radiation Health Physics.
What is Oregon State University?
This worksheet provides the preliminary biological warfare exposure risk level.
What is The Threat Hazard Baseline Worksheet?
Shall be negatively pressurized and exhausted, and shall be provided with 12 Air Changes per hour.
What are TB Isolation bedrooms?