Complexity Digest 2003.03 - 19.03

20-Jan-2003

Electronic Library Provides One Stop Shop For Emergency Staff Facing Biochemical Terrorism, Alphagalileo Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Following recent concerns about possible deliberate releases of chemical or biological agents, (...) has launched a web resource to provide a one stop access to information for emergency health staff in case of a suspected deliberate release of such agents. This includes sources of information to recognise groups of symptoms that may be caused by unusual agents, treatments and wider public health responses. The electronic libraryˇ¦s home page is available at ˇ§The web site is increasingly seen as the first place emergency care staff look when needing clinical or managerial information on new developments (...) releases of chemical or biological agents ˇ¨