نبذة مختصرة : Terrorists contaminated beer tanks of an amusement park supply chain with Botulinum toxin. The amusement park delivers beer to its restaurants and coffee shops by a pipeline network supplied from beer tanks which are fed by tanker-trucks. There are 30000 visitors per day and 12% of them are supposed to drink the infected beer. The Botulinum toxin has been chosen by the terrorists because of: the high potential damages of the toxin to consumers which lead to 95% of hospitalizations and until 60% of deaths, the facility of the bacterial culture, and the low contamination threshold of a victim. The disease incurred is not person-to-person transmissible. Beer is a good host for Botulinum bacteria culture and is also a symbol of the developed countries. Several countermeasures are available to mitigate and response the bioterrorist attack. The medical responses focus on national antitoxin stockpiles, on mechanical ventilators, on ICU beds, on home health care and on ELISA tests. The mitigation countermeasure is based on Ultra High Pressure Homogenization of the beer. Several attack simulations and a cost-analysis study has been carried out to select the best countermeasures combination regarding the attack consequences.
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