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5 October 2013

Contact: Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net

H-II OPSEC
Url: www.H-II.org

 2,181,000 farms - The danger in shutting down national security

In the midst of the Global War on Terrorism, suspected unsecured chemical and biological weapons obtained by Sunni/Shia transnational terrorist groups from Syria, focus on transfer into the United States and European Union by both drug and human trafficking routes, with every NATO alliance member in a state of economic emergency, while the remainder of 170 UN member countries are in the midst of an economic catastrophe.

• Syrian Bioweapons Program: Anthrax, Plague, Tularemia, Botulinium, Smallpox, Aflotoxin, Cholera, Ricin, Camelpox.... sections of their chemical and nuclear weapons moved to into the Baqaa Valley in Lebanon. -- Syria's Bio-Warfare Threat: an interview with Dr. Jill Dekker: Consultant to the NATO Defense Establishment in bio-warfare and counter terrorism. -- New English Review, Dec 2007. Syria: CBRNE Chemical - Biological - Nuclear Crisis Discussions: HRI: H-II OPSEC. 

As of October 1 at 12:01 a.m., hundreds of thousands of national security personnel that are not on duty, including as many as 400,000 Defense Department civilian personnel were told not to come to work. According to the Pentagon’s own guidance, this includes all intelligence activities not in direct support of excepted activities. -- The danger in shutting down national security: Reuters, 3 October 2013.

At the Ready has ventured off the beaten path to shed light on a type of emergency that responders do not often talk about; and one in which responders are probably less frequently trained. In 2007, there were 922,095,840 (1) acres of farmland in the United States; nearly 41 percent of total land area. In 2011, there were 2,181,000 farms spread throughout every state in the union. That averages 43,620 farms per state. Chances are pretty good that at some point in your career you will be called upon to respond to an emergency of some kind on a farm. -- Emergency Down on the Farm: At The Ready Magazine, October 2013 Issue.

Agricultural security in the United States - Implementing our contingency plans to protect 2,181,000 farms spread throughout every state in the union. -- Agricultural Security and Emergency Preparedness: Protecting One of America's Critical Infrastructures: Reference Paper for Agricultural Security: U.S. Medicine Institute for Health Studies Forum "Food, Air, Water, and Terrorism: Assessing the Risk," sponsored by the Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections System and Annapolis Center. 29 January 2002.

Assessing 10 years of progress:

• Producers and Producer Organizations Overlooked in Contingency Planning Discussions on Biosecurity: Keynote: 8th annual meeting of the Association of Veterinary Biologics Companies (AVBC), 5 November 2003.

Case studies: Zoonotic spread of West Nile Virus throughout the North American Continent (more deadly to North American bird species than to species in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, where the virus is normally found) and 2001 UK FMD Outbreak (10,791,000 animals culled, 10,472 premises depopulated, $20 billion economic impact):

• DNA-based Detection Technologies (Powerpoint): Stephen M.Apatow, Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies Center for Medicine,  The Future of Biodetection Systems Workshop: Los Alamos National Laboratory, September 26 & 27 2006.

Related:

• DNA Biometrics - Biological Countermeasure Programs: HRI:H-II OPSEC, 24 October 2012.
• H-II OPSEC - Redefining a Global Security Support System: HRI:H-II, 4 April 2013.  Spotlight in Journal of Special Operations Medicine: JSOM ABC's, 15 April 2013.

Questions or requests for additional information:

Stephen M. Apatow
H-II OPSEC Defense & Security Consulting
Crisis Response and Humanitarian Operations
Director of Research and Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University Consortium  Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Telephone: 203-668-0282 
Email: s.m.apatow@H-II.org
Internet: www.H-II.org
LinkedIn: H-II OPSEC



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