JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- If there's an accident involving a fuel truck on Interstate 5, first responders would perform a rudimentary decontamination of anyone involved. Then, for those ...

A free Hospital Decontamination Self-Assessment Tool is available from the Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program. The tool provides guidance for a ...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) partnered with DHS and other agencies to develop two resources for managing exposure in mass chemical incidents. The two ...

YONGSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- Charlie Company, 121st Combat Support Hospital conducted a mass casualty patient decontamination training at the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital on U.S. Army Garrison ...

MANSFIELD — Travelers who drove near Mansfield Lahm Airport on Thursday may have thought a radioactive bomb had exploded nearby. No one was injured because nothing happened. It was a training exercise ...

Decontamination is defined as the process of removing or neutralizing a hazard from the environment, property, or life form. The principal objectives of this process are to prevent further harm and ...

To SDD or Not To SDD? Prophylactic administration of antibiotics, including selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD), to critically ill patients in an era of antibiotic resistance is a highly ...

The Mass Human Chemical Decontamination Working Group (a federal interagency working group) developed the guidance with the advice of a larger group of federal and non-federal subject matter experts ...

Selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD) and selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) are infection-prevention measures used in the treatment of some patients in intensive care, but ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally ran June 9. “We are the best!” excitedly shouted Matthew Sias, decontamination program manager, Department of Emergency Management, when describing the performance ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is getting some help in the fight for his life. As of this past weekend, Duncan is being treated with an experimental drug. On Monday afternoon, ...

DALLAS (AP) -- After days of scrutiny about their treatment, a family that was living in the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient was staying when he got sick was moved to a private residence in a ...