Lesson 1 - General Overview

• Introduction and Objectives
• Bioterrorism Threat
• Clinical Syndromes
• Bubonic Plague
• Pneumonic Plague
• Septicemic & Other Forms of Plague
• Epidemiology – Natural Reservoirs
• Epidemiology – Transmission
• Incidence in the United States
• Plague Case Fatality Rates in the US
• Plague Worldwide
• Bioterrorism Scenario- Aerosolized Y. pestis
• Lesson Self Assessments