Task Force Scorpio

<h2 id="re-activation">Re-activation</h2>
<p>The Task force was deactivated after the first Gulf War.  But the <a href="/facts/World_Health_Organization/YNN3bgug">World Health Organization</a> approached the Swiss government to reactivate it in January 2003. It was to be renamed the Swiss/European WMD Task Force. No information has been published about its reactivation.
</p><p>In February 2016, the <a href="/facts/European_Union/6GYcR8qM">European Union</a> launched a similar medical corps to respond to emergencies like the <a href="/facts/West_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic/8Tr58t6q">Ebola outbreak</a> in West Africa.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> The response to that outbreak was slower and less organized than it might have been had a quick response force been available.
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<h2 id="sources">Sources</h2>
<ul><li>Barbara Hatch Rosenberg (January–February 2004). <a href="http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/dd75/75bhr.htm">"Enforcing WMD Treaties: Consolidating a UN Role"</a>. <i>Disarmament Diplomacy</i> (75). Acronym Institute. Note 31.</li>
<li>Dr Jack Woodall. <a href="http://www.fas.org/bwc/papers/scorpro.htm">"Task Force Scorpio: Civilian Relief after Biological Attack"</a>. Federation of American scientists.</li>
<li>Woodall, John P (November 30, 2004). "Civilian Relief after Release of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Need for a New Task Force 'Scorpio'". In Kocik, Janusz (ed.). <i>Preparedness Against Bioterrorism And Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nato Science Series I:Life and Behavioural Sciences)</i>. IOS Press. pp. 111–113. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1586034177.</li>
<li>Woodall, Jack (February 28, 2003). <a href="http://www.asanltr.com/newsletter/03-1/articles/031c.htm">"Civilian Relief after Release of Weapons of Mass Destruction"</a>. <i>Applied Science and Analysis Newsletter</i>. 03–1 (94).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030805020651/http://www.who.int/csr/delibepidemics/biochemguide/en/">"Introduction: see Section 1.2 Paragraph 3"</a>. <a href="https://www.who.int/csr/delibepidemics/biochemguide/en/"><i>Public health response to biological and chemical weapons</i></a>. Global Alert and Response, World Health Organization. 2004. Archived from <a href="https://www.who.int/csr/delibepidemics/introduction.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on August 5, 2003.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Steffen, R; Mellin, J; Woodall, JP; Rollin, PE; Lang, RH; Lüthy, R; Waldvogel, A (March 1997). "Preparation for emergency relief after biological warfare". The Journal of Infection. 34 (2): 127–32. doi:10.1016/s0163-4453(97)92433-6. PMID 9138135. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"EU launches medical emergency corps". Yahoo News. Retrieved 16 February 2016. <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/eu-launches-medical-emergency-corps-140432775.html" target="_blank">https://news.yahoo.com/eu-launches-medical-emergency-corps-140432775.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Clifton, M. Jack Woodall, 81, the James Bond of animal/human disease prevention: Cofounder of ProMED-mail. Animals 24-7. October 30, 2016 <a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2016/10/30/jack-woodall-81-the-james-bond-of-animalhuman-disease-prevention/" target="_blank">http://www.animals24-7.org/2016/10/30/jack-woodall-81-the-james-bond-of-animalhuman-disease-prevention/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>|author=Dr Jack Woodall |date=June 2015 |Personal communication <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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