Medical report prop/handout for my CoC game (my players stay out!)

[frankthedm]

good luck finding those forms and all, govenments make those things difficult to get to reduce forgeries.

last year i found an interpol disaster victim identification form. check thier main site and good luck.

 

[diaglo]

Are the two groups competative?

Oh, is there a standard issue outfit? Would they likely wear masks for this? What kind of preventative actions would take place, you think?

If I'm harassing you for too much info, sorry... just a bit of a goldmine to find someone working for the CDC .

sorry for the delay. i'm only online 7am-4pm EST

we call them respirators not masks.

they are only worn if an aerolosized agent is suspected. since this does not have a contagious etiology it is unlikely they would wear one. but if they did it would be a PAPR with HEPA filtration. you can find examples of these on http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/...utions_3_0/command_AbcPageHandler/output_html


other PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to consider: box of disposable gloves (nitrile, vinyl, or latex), lab coat or surgical gown depending on the level of protection needed. in this case they might not wear any. as they would perform interviews (either face to face or by phone depending on resources available like transportation to and from the patient/health care worker/or family members for deceased) and want to appear nonthreatening (this of course places the epidemiologist in harms way if they don't know the real threat level)

 

[diaglo]

Are the two groups competative?

professional rivalry. not really in competition for funding or such. they perform very different function mostly.

 

[diaglo]

Hey Diaglo, you don't happen to know anyone who was working in the CDC in Atlanta by the name of Foley (Nickname online ages ago used to be Belal)

there are thousands of us in Atlanta. over 6000 worldwide.

i know a few people but sadly i don't recall a Foley. looking at the phone directory. i found 3. 2 of them women. the man is in pittsburgh working for NIOSH.

edit: doing a search on our intranet. i found 2 more. another man in pittsburgh. and one in atlanta. the atlanta foley is an engineer.

 

[hong]

i don't see them preventing travel into and out of the area. but that may also be a consideration. in which case (we don't have any real army) they would ask the state to use their troops. National guard probably.

Actually, in a Cthulhuoid world where nameless horrors lurk in the dark, it might not be too far-fetched that the CDC would have a black ops department, armed with rocket launchers.

Hmm. BRB.

 

[hong]

(bad idea, never mind)

 

[Arravis]

Thanks for all the comments and ideas everyone

Diaglo... if the disease they beleive they are dealing with normally spreads via mosquito's, and there would normally not be any in the early fall months in Alaska (nor have their been any cases of this disease this far north), what kind of precautions would they take? Especially considering the fact that the disease is clearly spreading without a known vector. Anyway, thanks again for all the info, it's been VERY helpful .

 

[diaglo]

they do a catch with nets, big nets for flying critters. or capturing larvae in water samples or sponges/ filtration.

we do what we can. taking blood samples from other possible hosts like rodents or other mammals.

or we grind up tissue samples if need be. from say snails or ground worms if they are suscepted of hosting the disease.

these are sent to the state lab or directly to the main labs back in atlanta or colorado. fort collins, co is the vector-borne (ticks for example) lab

 

[Conaill]

Normally spread by mosquitos, eh? A couple helicopters spraying insecticides would help raise the paranoia level. Once the CDC people themselves start freaking out (hey, this is CoC after all), they'd probably start whipping out cans of insecticide at the slightest buzzing sound...

 

[Conaill]

Oh, and I'd have to second the secret CDC black ops team. Of course, diaglo will vehemently deny their existence... that's his job.

"You ever heard of Sakumtchesa, Alaska? Well, neither has anybody else, and these are the guys you can thank for that. It was a little village a couple hundred miles out of Bethel. Don't bother to look for it, because it's not there anymore..."