POSTATTACK SANITATION WASTE DISPOSAL, PEST AND VECTOR CONTROL REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES
Abstract
In the event of a nuclear attack on the United States, environmental disease control measures will be interrupted with the surviving population exposed to the ensuing disease hazards. The report considers the probability of the occurrence of some 14 diseases that might develop, evaluates the effectiveness of available control measures and determines the total operational requirement for recovery of environmental sanitation in terms of manpower, equipment and material. The enteric infections (Shigellosis, Infectious Hepatitus, Salmonellosis, Typhoid and Amoebiasis), especially Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery), are assigned a leading role among the diseases to be controlled, thus indicating a compelling need for the prompt removal and sanitary disposal of human feces and of spoiled food and other decomposable fly breeding potential organic material. Other hazards include mosquito-borne encephalitis, Rabies, Murine Typhus, Plague, Leptospirosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Dengue, Malaria and Yellow Fever. Significantly effective control of these disease hazards in the postattack environment is possible through the utilization of material and equipment properly positioned for prompt postattack operations. The magnitude of these needs (material, equipment and manpower) is developed for an estimated metropolitan population of 88 million.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0611769