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What hurricane made landfall 26 days after Hurricane Katrina near the Texas-Louisiana border, thus, interfering with hurricane response activities in New Orleans and forcing the evacuations of coastal regions of Louisiana and Texas?

A) Hurricane Rita
B) Hurricane Camille
C) Hurricane Andrew
D) Hurricane Ivan

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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Whats the appropriate description of the following? -Has been developing technological methods of detecting biological and chemical attacks in the hope of recognizing an attack faster.

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Bioterrorism requires a very different kind of preparedness strategy than the response needed for dramatic disasters such as a hurricane or the attack on and collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

whats the agency to the appropriate description. -2004

The Incident Command System involves a committee of 3 persons from different emergency services coordinating a response.

Building collapses and hazardous material releases are examples of human-made and technological disasters.

Since 2002, the __________________________ has invested more than $9 billion in state, local, tribal, and territorial public health departments to upgrade their ability to respond to a range of public health threats.

It is believed that Asian flu may lead to the first flu pandemic in decades.

Electric and gas companies probably are not needed in an emergency response.

whats the agency to the appropriate description. -1969

At the time of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which of the following was a weaker agency than it had been during the Clinton administration when it was a cabinet-level agency with a professional disaster-relief professional as a director?

An unambiguous message to evacuate New Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina did not come until too close to the time the hurricane struck for it to be acted on by the most vulnerable of the population.

whats the agency to the appropriate description. -Should be coordinated so that casualties are entered into the emergency medical services system and the healthcare system

whats the agency to the appropriate description. -1965

An act of bioterrorism would be expected to mimic a natural disease outbreak and demand the same public health response that a natural epidemic would require.

Whats the appropriate description of the following? -The most dreaded of the possible bioterrorism agents

Whats the appropriate description of the following? -Developed by the CDC in response to the 2001 anthrax attacks

The damage of various types caused by a disaster is, by definition, far beyond the normal scale.

Just as the body has redundancy with two kidneys, two lungs, etc., so too emergency responses need to have redundancy for communications, power, etc.

Most terrorist events fall into the category of technological disasters.