By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 30, 2009

U.S. Postal Service to plan for delivering antidotes in event of a bioterror attack
Mailman to Deliver Aid in Case of Anthrax Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12 ... .html?_r=1
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive.

In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing ''medical countermeasures'' to biological weapons because of its ''capacity for rapid residential delivery.''

While most likely unrelated, the release of the executive order comes less than a week after a man with alleged ties to al-Qaida tried to bring down a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. In recent days, Obama has sought to assure the public that his administration is doing what it can to protect the nation from terrorist attacks.

Under the new order, federal agencies must develop a response plan that includes possible law enforcement escorts for Postal Service workers and gives anthrax ''primary threat consideration.''

Anthrax made headlines in the weeks following the 2001 terrorist attacks when letters containing the substance were sent to lawmakers and news organizations.

The spores killed five people: Two Washington, D.C., postal workers, a New York City hospital worker, a Florida photo editor and a 94-year-old Connecticut woman who had no known contact with any of the poisoned letters. Seventeen other people were sickened.

Obama says his decision to give the Postal Service a role in responding to a widespread biological attack won't supersede the authorities of other agencies.

It's a perfect idea.

bout time.

ok now check this out..... back in 2008 when we had the BUSH administration.....
btw I just did a random google search for this and this one popped up but I have a book mark from back then I will have to dig that up....
anyone seeing any red flags here?


Wed Oct 1, 2008 3:43pm

Mail carriers to bring drugs in anthrax attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government mail carriers would deliver emergency supplies of antibiotics to people in U.S. cities in the case of an anthrax attack, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said on Wednesday.

The system has been tested in three large cities -- Seattle, Philadelphia and Boston -- and a pilot program is set to begin soon in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said there was no evidence any attack was imminent but that it was important for authorities to have a quick distribution system ready.

The U.S. Postal Service carriers who would bring the antibiotics from door to door all would be volunteers who would have advance supplies of antibiotics to protect themselves and their families, officials said.

Attacks involving anthrax-laced letters in the United States in 2001 killed five people, including two U.S. Postal Service workers from a facility in Washington, D.C., and made 13 sick. Thousands were given antibiotics to prevent disease.

The letter carriers would deliver thousands of doses of doxycycline, an antibiotic that can treat anthrax infection as well as some causes of pneumonia and Lyme disease.

Anthrax infections can affect the skin and gastrointestinal system and are easily treated if caught early. But if spores are inhaled, the symptoms are difficult to diagnose and by the time a patient is really sick, it is often too late to save him with antibiotics.

SILENT INFECTION

After the 2001 attacks more than 10,000 people took antibiotics to prevent infection in case they were exposed to the spores, which infect the lungs. The drugs they took included Bayer AG's ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, doxycycline and other antibiotics.

Following any new attacks, the mail carriers would be escorted by local police as they deliver supplies of a few days' worth of antibiotics directly to residences throughout an affected community, Leavitt said.

"The intentional release of anthrax spores is one of the most significant biological threats we face," Leavitt said.

"We have stockpiled millions of doses of antibiotics -- enough to meet the needs of several large cities. But terrorists attack without warning, and many people could fall ill from inhalation anthrax before we get them the stockpiled drugs," Leavitt added.

William Raub, science advisor to Leavitt, cited as one possible scenario an attack using a crop-dusting airplane dumping anthrax spores over a city.

He said authorities would like to have at least half of the letter carriers in a given city take part in the scheme. They would deliver a bottle of pills and a fact sheet on anthrax.

In Minneapolis and St. Paul, authorities will contact about 700 mail carriers to see if they would be willing to volunteer. Officials said more cities could be added starting next year, but none has been selected yet.

"We have found letter carriers to be the surest way of getting pills to whole communities of people anywhere in the country," Leavitt said. After they undertook the initial deliveries, public health authorities would set up centers to resupply the community with antibiotics.

you are not seeing it are you low666
they have been role playing for some time.............

man I have to dig out some old book marks....

If Bioterrorists Strike, Letter Carriers Might Deliver Antibiotics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02936.html

Thursday, October 2, 2008

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor bioterrorism attack stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds -- especially if they are delivering antibiotics to protect people from anthrax." That may someday become the unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt yesterday proposed a solution to one of the bigger challenges in responding to an anthrax bioterrorism attack -- how to deliver protective antibiotics to tens of thousands of people overnight.

The tentative answer: have the mailman (and -woman) do the job. As an incentive to the letter carriers -- who would be volunteers -- the government would issue them in advance an antibiotic supply large enough to treat themselves and their families. They would also be accompanied by police officers on their rounds. "We have found letter carriers to be the federal government's quickest and surest way of getting pills to whole communities," Leavitt said. The strategy has the full support of the Postal Service and its unions, spokesmen said.

"Letter carriers are on the street six days a week. They are constantly helping out as just part of their job, and this is taking it one step further," said Drew Von Bergen of the National Association of Letter Carriers.

"Anytime this country has any kind of crisis, it is the Postal Service that is out there first," said Postal Service spokeswoman Sue Brennan.

Boston, Philadelphia and Seattle held experimental runs of the distribution strategy in 2006 and 2007, said William Raub, Leavitt's science adviser. In Philadelphia, 50 carriers, each accompanied by a city police officer, reached 55,000 households in less than eight hours.
Based on those tests, the strategy was deemed practical and will be put in effect on a trial basis next year in Minneapolis and St. Paul, he said.

The Postal Service there will solicit about 700 letter carriers, enough to cover 20 Zip codes or about one-quarter of all households. The workers will be medically screened (including questions about family members), fitted with N95 face masks, and issued a supply of the antibiotic doxycycline for their household. If successful, it may be expanded to encompass the entire Twin Cities area, said Jude Plessas, a Postal Service official.

Before that pilot project can begin, however, the Food and Drug Administration must approve distribution of the drug for this purpose, which is not currently part of its label, or officially approved list of uses. Leavitt yesterday requested that FDA review, which may take months.

Since 2004, the federal government has funded the Cities Readiness Initiative, which is helping 72 urban areas make plans to distribute drugs to a target population within 48 hours of a bioterrorism attack.

Any of those cities will now be able to employ the letter carrier distribution strategy. The federal government will not force them to adopt it, as disaster planning is principally a job for state and local governments. The federal government has enough anthrax antibiotics in the Strategic National Stockpile to treat 40 million people for 60 days. The medicine is cached in 12 sites around the country. Sixty days is the maximum amount of time a person exposed to airborne anthrax spores might have to take medicine to prevent the inhalational form of the bacterial infection, which is rapidly fatal if not treated.

Letter carriers who volunteer for this duty would not be paid bonuses or given any other incentives, Brennan said. In a bioterrorist attack seven years ago this fall, finely powdered anthrax spores were sent in envelopes to several addresses on the East Coast. Four workers at a mail processing center in the District, where at least one of the letters was sorted, developed inhalational anthrax, and two died.

In all, 8,424 postal employees were offered prophylactic courses of antibiotics. Sixty-six percent started, but about 10 percent of them stopped taking the offered drugs for various reasons. Nearly all took ciprofloxacin, a medicine that is not being offered as part of the letter carriers' supply under the new plan, in part because of its possible side effects. In another action yesterday, Leavitt issued a declaration that will provide protection against lawsuits for companies that make drugs for mass distribution during an anthrax attack, or who help distribute them.

OK so it sounds like a bad idea to you.
Im not setting you up with this,
but could you explain exactly what it is about this idea that bothers you?

Even with my Spooky Filter on, i cant find anything inherently problematic.
Nor could i come up with a better solution if i was the guy in charge of figuring out how to respond nationally with a particular Medicine X...for aworst case scenarios.

again, not a setup...I want to know specifically what bugs you about it.

Mark my words, there will be a crisis..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItK0EAEqj4


October 20, 2008
Top world military officials meet in Lake Placid
http://www.lakeplacidnews.com/page/cont ... 00578.html

let me ask you a question low
why did you join this conspiracy site?
what is the truth you seek?
did yah follow anything that was going on in 2007 - 2008?

The flu vaccinations have been disected and found(imo) to be a productive component in depopulation....the nasal dispersion is worse to inhance the contagious factor........Obama got his health care deal and now more, especially those that can't afford, can reap the benifits of a tainted pharmacuitical poision despersion component in that same endevor which allows them to cover more people ...the war continues to deliver lives and strangely enough was found out to be foundated on lies but still continues....then after this recent bomb scare on the plane..raising peoples fear level again....people accept the new tech at the airports and allow more of their freedoms to be taken by those under the disguise of protector....and now that the fear is functioning well....the mailman becomes a pony to carry out suspect poision to probabally cover more people to fill the quota of lives that all countries involved have to reach(imo)

but that all sounds crazy....there's nothing wrong with the world we live....right?

thanks for the heads up DRabbit....the machine is in full gear.....is this the change obama was speaking of?

Yeah beleaguering