ASPR tests biocontainment unit for transporting simulated patients with high-consequence infectious diseases to hospitals
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response June 25 announced it conducted an exercise transporting simulated patients with high-consequence infectious diseases in a new portable biocontainment unit from Toronto to U.S. hospitals in the northeast and southeast. The hospitals are all Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers for highly infectious diseases. ASPR said the biocontainment unit is the first domestic resource for isolating and transporting patients with high-consequence infectious diseases, such as Ebola, across long distances to RESPTCs. The unit can be transported by air or by ground.
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