The Meyerhoff Incident

Simulating Bioterrorism in a National Security Class

Bibliographic Data

ID6102450
AuthorsVolker Franke, Volker C Franke (0000-0002-9737-621X, McDaniel College, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume39
Issue1
Pages153-156
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1049096506060276
OpenAlexW2078670108
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

Saturday night, downtown Baltimore, Maryland. A sold-out concert performance at the Joseph B. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Unknowingly, the 2,400 members of the audience become victims of a bioterrorist attack when an aerosol of plague (Y. pestis) is silently released. Over the course of the next 36 hours increasing numbers of residents seek medical attention at area hospitals for cough and fever. By mid-morning on Monday some 300 persons with these symptoms have received medical care; 17 of which have died. The State Health Department notifies the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and by mid-afternoon plague is confirmed first by the state laboratory and subsequently by the CDC's Washington, D.C. lab. I would like to thank Carrie Vivian for her contributions to the development of this exercise and Dena Owens and PS's anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions on this manuscript. In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to the former mayor of Westminster, Maryland, Kevin Dayhoff, and the emergency responders for their contributions to and participation in this exercise

Ancient history · Archaeology · Downtown · Emergency rooms · Evening · Gratitude · Medical emergency · Morning · Political science · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research · History · Medicine · Psychology · Viral Infections and Vectors · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

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