Officials' disaster drill is first of its kind, scope in area
By Steve Bauer
Friday September 15, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
UI student Danielle Javier plays a 66-year-old woman as Amy Warren, left, and Dr. Geetha Sizasubramanian prepare to wheel he away. Memorial Stadium on the UI campus in Champaign became a 'surge facility' for a mock outbreak of pneumonic plague Wednesday morning. It was part of a drill involving public health, hospital and emergency management agencies.
Few can imagine what an outbreak of plague in Champaign County might bring.
But those with the responsibilities of dealing with the real thing, if it should happen, tried to do just that in a three-day disaster drill, the first of its kind and scope, locally.
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