What are Summit County and my community doing to protect the public and prepare for bioterrorism?
The City of Akron and surrounding communities in Summit County are working together to develop a Metropolitan Medical Response System to deal with the consequences of a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) terrorist incident, the outbreak of epidemic disease, or the release of biological, nuclear, incendiary, chemical and explosive (BNICE) agents. This plan identifies how the public health, public safety and health service resources will be coordinated in case of the above-described events.