A Case Study on How the State of Connecticut Prepared its Department of Public Health to Handle a Large-Scale Disaster Event
A Case Study on How the State of Connecticut Prepared its Department of Public Health to Handle a Large-Scale Disaster Event
8 PagesA Case Study on How the State of Connecticut Prepared its Department of Public Health to Handle a Large-Scale Disaster EventThe genesis of the Connecticut Mobile Field Hospital, now named the Ottilie W. Lundgren Mobile Field Hospi- tal, is found in the sobering events of 9/11. The horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were followed almost immediately by an anthrax outbreak which claimed lives, not only in New York and Washington, DC, but also in Florida, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Connecticut’s single anthrax victim, 94-year old Ottilie Lundgren, is believed to have contracted the disease by handling mail that was cross-contaminated by tainted letters that passed through the Trenton, New Jersey postal facility. As a result of these events, emerg
