Public Health and Terrorism Preparedness Program

If you see or get notification of:

• threatening phone or electronic messages

• unusual or threat-related envelopes or packages

• unusual illnesses among people/animal

Or notice possible clues to a biohazard event:

• single case caused by an uncommon agent

• large number of ill persons with similar disease, syndrome or deaths

• large number of unexplained disease, syndrome or death

• unusual illness in a population

• higher morbidity & mortality than expected with a common 

• disease or syndrome

• multiple disease entities coexisting in the same patient

• disease with an unusual geographic or seasonal distribution

• multiple atypical presentations of disease agents

• similar genetic type of agent from distinct sources

• unusual, atypical, genetically engineered, or antiquated strain

• endemic disease with unexplained increased incidence

• simultaneous clusters of similar illness in con-contiguous areas

• atypical aerosol, food, or water transmission

• ill persons presenting during the same time

• concurrent animal disease

Notify local Law Enforcement and your Public Health Department.

Duval County Health Department
Main Office
515 W. 6th Street
Jacksonville, FL 32206
253-1000

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