Syrinx
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Thu Jan-08-04 11:17 PM
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Smallpox and social workers? |
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I talked to someone I know tonight, who happens to be a social worker. She said that she had been contacted by the state Department of Public Health a couple weeks ago. The officials asked her if she would participate in a training session related to bioterrorism. They told her that they were contacting all social workers in the state licensed at the master's degree level. She declined, citing prior committments.
She went on to inform me that she had been contacted again last night. They wanted her to reconsider her decision. She didn't understand why they needed people like her to deal with bioterrorism. They explained to her that the training would revolve around the idea of a smallpox outbreak, and that the role of social workers would be to gauge "individual vulneralbility" and to "calm hysterical individuals." She also has been informed that the pool of social workers for this project has been enlarged to include those at the bachelors-level licensed sw's.
Has anyone else heard of anything like this?
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Cleita
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Thu Jan-08-04 11:22 PM
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1. I heard once that small pox had been eliminated except |
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for a colony that was kept in some lab, maybe the CDC, because it was against their principles to kill off a species (???). Is it possible that the petrie dish got into the wrong hands, like our present government?
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Columbia
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Fri Jan-09-04 12:01 AM
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have cultures of smallpox too. There is a report that the Russian lab was compromised and the culture might have been stolen and given to Iraq.
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SheilaT
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Thu Jan-08-04 11:55 PM
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to go fuck themselves.
The only reason to fear a smallpox outbreak is if our government decides to let the virus loose. She should stand firm and not let them intimidate her into anything.
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Syrinx
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Sat Jan-10-04 03:12 AM
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4. Has anyone else heard of anything like this? |
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Sat Jan-10-04 07:53 AM
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5. I also heard that althought the Russian supply was taken by America |
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that there were rumors of a compromise of the russian supply
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