FAMILY SURVIVAL LINKS

GENERAL - NUCLEAR - BIOCHEMICAL

Smallpox - "Death can take from 48 hours to two weeks. There is no treatment."
The history of Smallpox
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Smallpox trivia

GENERAL

• NBC ALERTS!
• Emergency food & water preparedness
• Nuclear, Bio & Chemical Preparedness
• Emergency.com
• Civil Defense
• State Health Depts.
• HomeLandDefense.org
• Possible types of attacks
• ReadyMadeResources.com
• Good stuff Maynard
• You Will Survive Doomsday
• Army Field manuals
• A Civil Defense Manual - How To Protect Your family
• Boy Scout
• Girl Scout

Suggested Reading
• Family Preparedness Handbook
• U.S. Army Survival Manual
• Ranger Handbook
• SAS Survival Guide
• SAS Survival Handbook
• The Complete Book of Survival :How to Protect Yourself Against Revolution,  Riots,  Hurricanes, Famines and Other Natural and Man-Made Disasters

NUCLEAR

• NBC ALERTS!
• Nuclear War Survival Skills (link 1)
• Nuclear War Survival Skills (link 2)
• 11 Steps to Nuclear War Survival
• HomeLandDefense.org
• The Nuclear Files
• Map Blaster!
• Fallout
• Trans-Pacific Fallout
• Known Nuke Tests
• Nuclear War Unthinkable? (Russian & Chinese Preps!)
• Bruce Beach's Nuclear Survival Ark II Site
• Potassium Iodide Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ

BIO-CHEMICAL

• Guidance from the US Postal Service
• In Case of Emergency(Hotlines & Procedures)
• NBC ALERTS!
• CDC Alerts!
• HomeLandDefense.org
• CDC Infectious Diseases List
• CDC Answers About Anthrax
• CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Microbiology Webbed Out!
• Center for BioTerrorism & Emerging Diseases
• Anthrax Q & A
• The Science of Anthrax
• Smallpox Threat Small But Worrisome
• Smallpox: An Attack Scenario
• All the Virology on the WWW
• Botulism Fact sheet link
• How to defend against Chemical Weapons
• Bio-Chem Info
• Various High & Low Tech Chemical Weapons
• Army's Medical NBC Battlebook
• Textbook of Military Medicine: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare
• Virtual Naval Hospital: Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties
•  Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook
• Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook
• NBC/ABC Warfare Survival Skills Links
• Image Ebola Virus in skin
• Image the deadly Ebola Virus
• Image Politically Correct HIV map
• Image Anthrax
• Image Anthrax lesion on neck
• Image Anthrax lesion on face
• Image Closeup of Anthrax Lesion
• Image Hemorrhagic meningitis due to inhalation anthrax.

• has been known for many centuries. The characteristic "pocks" produced by variola (smallpox) virus gave their name to all forms of infectious disease: "a dose of the pox".
• first appeared in China and the Far East at least 2000 years ago.
• The Pharaoh Ramses V died of smallpox in 1157 B.C.
• reached Europe in 710 A.D. and was transferred to America by Hernando Cortez in 1520.
• 3,500,000 Aztecs died in the next 2 years.
• reached plague proportions in the cities of 18th century Europe and was a highly feared scourge.
• killed five reigning European monarchs during the 18th century.
• The last naturally occurring outbreak was in Somalia on 26th October 1977.