(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Tina Hesman - Four faculty members from St. Louis University have arrived in Israel to lay the groundwork for America's first program to teach nurses what to do if terrorists strike the U.S. with chemical or biological weapons. Faculty members at SLU's School of Nursing were discussing the initiation of a program to train the nurses who would be responsible for implementing drug distribution and vaccination plans after a strike with a biological weapon, but no one was sure where to get experienced help to build a program. Elsie Roth, 73, a retired nurse, suggested the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, since the Israelis were probably the only people in the world truly prepared to deal with biological or chemical terrorism.
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