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SCENARIO 45 S A R S OUTBREAK IN 2013

SCENARIO: Your SARS brief sheet below gives you some information and the history of this fast spreading disease.

NOW - An Airbus 380 with 420 passengers flying out of London from the Middle East; is flying into your country and has on board what appears to be a individual with SARS. He is listed in critical condition and many other passengers are complaining about flu like symptoms. The aircraft will arrive in US airspace in 90 minutes. It can fly for another 4 and 1/2 hours. The intelligence briefer does not know if this is a BIO Weapon or not. The president has asked you for advise on what to do.

Listed 4 possible answers below. You have to explain why you decided on your specific plans of action. How, What, Where, and When your plan would start to it's finish.

1. Declare an emergency and forbid the aircraft to enter US airspace.

2. Land the aircraft at an military base - quarantine all people aboard; and keep them quarantined until each is cleared by medical staff.

3. Allow the aircraft to land and discharge its passengers, taking into the hospital ONLY the individuals who were sick aboard the aircraft.

4. Shot the aircraft down. As a show of strength to the world that we will not allow SARS or any other BIO weapon into the USA.

SARS FACT BRIEFING SHEET

Background/History/Basic Information of SARS:

1. History - 2003 - Ten years have elapsed since the World Health Organization issued its first global alert for an unexplained illness, which it named severe acute respiratory syndrome -- SARS. (CDC)

2. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first discovered in Asia in February 2003. The outbreak lasted approximately six months as the disease spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before it was stopped in July 2003. (CDC)

3. An outbreak of SARS in South China and then Hong Kong nearly became a pandemic, with 8,273 reported cases and 775 deaths worldwide (9.6% fatality rate) according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Within weeks, SARS spread from Hong Kong to infect individuals in 37 countries in early 2003.

4. On 24 March 2003, Singapore's Ministry of Health invoked the Infectious Diseases Act, allowing for a 10-day mandatory home quarantine to be imposed on all who may have come in contact with SARS patients.[citation needed] SARS patients who have been discharged from hospitals were under 21 days of home quarantine, with telephone surveillance requiring them to answer the phone when randomly called. Discharged probable SARS patients and some recovered cases of suspected SARS patients are similarly required to be home quarantined for 14 days. (FluWikie)

Security officers from Certis CISCO (CISCO), a Singaporean auxiliary police force, were used to serve quarantine orders to their homes, and installed an electronic picture (ePIC) camera outside the doors of each contact. Sparked in particular by the news surrounding an elderly man who disregarded the quarantine order, flashing it to the public as he strolled to eating outlets and causing a minor exodus of patrons which persisted until the fears over the disease abated, the Singapore government called for an urgent meeting in Parliament on 24 April to amend the Infectious Disease Act and include penalties for violations, revealing at least 11 other violators of quarantine orders. These amendments included: (CDC)

a. The requirement of suspected persons of infectious diseases to be brought to designated treatment centers, and their prohibition from going to public places;

b. The designation of contaminated areas and the restriction of access to them, and the destruction of suspected sources of infection;

c. The introduction of the power to tag offenders who break home quarantine (persons who failed to be contacted three times by phone consecutively) with electronic wrist tags, and the imposition of fines without court trial;

d. The ability to charge repeated offenders in court which may lead to imprisonment; and the prosecution of anyone caught lying to health officials about their travel to SARS-affected areas or contacts with SARS patients.

5. The disease spread in Hong Kong from a mainland doctor who arrived in February, and stayed at the ninth floor of the Metropole Hotel in Kowloon, infecting 16 of the hotel visitors. Those visitors traveled to Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam, spreading SARS to those locations. On 23 April 2003, the WHO advised against all but essential travel to Toronto, noting that a small number of persons from Toronto appear to have "exported" SARS to other parts of the world. The WHO advisory was immediately followed by similar advisories by several governments to their citizens.

Diagnosis: SARS may be suspected in a patient who has:

1. Any of the symptoms, including a fever of 38 °C (100 °F) or higher, and

2. Either a history of: Contact (sexual or casual, including tattoos) with someone with a diagnosis of SARS within the last 10 days OR Travel to any of the regions identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as areas with recent local transmission of SARS (affected regions as of 10 May 2003[14] were parts of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the province of Ontario, Canada).

3. A probable case of SARS has the above findings plus positive chest X-ray findings of atypical pneumonia or respiratory distress syndrome. ]]> Scenarios RICHFL http://www.SurvivalMagazine.org/survival-forum/showthread.php/9575-SCENARIO-45-S-A-R-S-Outbreak-in-2013