Bio-Terrorism MHE 507 Module 3-Case Study

Running head : BIO-TERRORISM

Bio-Terrorism

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Bio-Terrorism

The Laboratory Response Network

The Laboratory Response Network or better known as LRN was first established in the year 1999 as a part of the early efforts of the Department of Health and Human Services as well as by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC , under the Presidential Decision Directive 39 , which urges to build anti-terrorism policies in the national . Primarily , the LRN is set to cooperate with other federal

br departments and agencies to handle assigned specific missions regarding the probable biological atttacks of terrorsim in the United States

Purpose and Scope

In serving its designated purpose as a ratified health organization the LRN is destined to work in close contact with its other founding partners : the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Association of Public Health Laboratories . Funadamentally , the LRN is established to serve to purpose of ensuring and strengthening the capabilities and effectiveness of all the U .S . Laboratories to respond in any possible assault of bioterrorism , by means of improving and modernizing the infrastructure of all the laboratories in both the state and federal levels . Thus , the LRN 's main objective involves liberalizing the healthcare laboraties which have restricted reach to respond against terrorism

More so , the LRN is in charged of maintaining that effective and mutual connections among the essential local and state public health international laboratories , military and federal department to ensure a systematic approach in responding to...