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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH June 23, 2010 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 4 June 23, 2010 Christopher Cooke asked why Lyme Disease did not require a contact history. Ms. Butler said that Lyme Disease is a reportable disease but it is not transmittable from person to person, therefore a follow up on contacts is unnecessary. C. Annual Public Health Preparedness Update Pat Gentry, Preparedness Coordinator, reported that Orange County Public Health Preparedness efforts thus far in 2010 have been focused on the NC Division of Public Health’s onsite review of OCHD’s recently updated Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Plan, continued response to H1N1 influenza pandemic, the revision of OCHD’s Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and beginning revisions to the Pandemic Influenza Plan. The SNS Plan update is an annual state Division of Public Health submission and this year, Orange County Public Health was selected as one of seven statewide onsite plan assessments conducted in April 2010. The SNS Plan describes Orange County’s systematic organization used to request, receive, store, distribute and dispense SNS assets (large quantities of medicine and medical supplies). It sets forth lines of authority, roles and responsibilities, and organizational relationships between Federal, State and local governments. The Orange County SNS Plan as chosen for a random onsite review by the state and scored 88.1, the highest score in the state. The average score throughout the state was 69. The plan was successfully activated for the H1N1 Flu event, as all North Carolina counties received SNS supplies (anti-virals, masks) from the federal government. At the mass vaccination event in November, 1,084 citizens were vaccinated in a 6-hour period. One lesson learned was the need for prepackaging of supplies for rapid deployment to dispensing points prior to an event. This is a goal for 2011. Other goals are development of a radio communications plan and identification of “at risk” populations. The Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and Pandemic Influenza Plans are additional annexes to OCHD’s overall Public Health Emergency Operations Plan, which follows Orange County’s Multihazard Plan and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). Christopher Cooke asked if there was also a security plan for the warehouse since a security plan for the points of dispensing was mentioned. Ms. Gentry stated that there is a security plan for the warehouse and that she does a monthly inventory of supplies that are warehoused. The estimate of a pandemic influenza disease burden was based on an attack rate of 20%. Christopher Cooke asked for clarification on the meaning of “attack rate”. Ms. Gentry explained that attack rate is based on how many in a given population would be affected by a pandemic, 20% being a mild pandemic. She further explained that the attack rate also takes into account how virulent the outbreak is. Orange County is basing their planning on a 40% rate for the COOP plan. Anissa Vines asked if a 2011 goal is to expand training to local law enforcement in the