INTRODUCTION
1 IMMUNIZATIONS/DISEASE REPORTING
Section I. Purposes of Immunization/Personnel
Eligible for the Army Immunization Program
Section II. Basic References Governing the Army
Immunization Program
Section III. Exemptions and Waivers from
Immunization
Section IV. Types of Immunity and Types of
Immunizing Agents
Section V. Reactions and Side Effects to
Immunizations.
Section VI. Precautions to Use When Handling and
Storing Immunizing Agents
Section VII. Immunizations Required for Foreign
Travel
Section VIII. Forms Used for Recording Immunizations
Section IX. Reportable Communicable Diseases
Exercises
2 IONIZATION, MICROWAVE, AND LASER INJURIES
Section I. Ionizing and Nonionizing Radiation
Section II. Microwave Radiation
Section III. Laser Radiation
Exercises
3 DROWNING AND NEAR DROWNING
Section I. General Considerations of Drowning and
Near Drowning
Section II. On-the-Scene Treatment/Management of
Drowning / Near Drowning Victims
Section III. Hospital Treatment/Management of the
Near Drowning Victims
Exercises
4 HEAT INJURIES
Section I. Characteristics/General Findings of Heat
Injuries
Section II. Mechanisms for the Regulation of
Temperature in the Human Body
Section III. Heat Transference Mechanisms
Section IV. Factors Affecting Heat Injuries
Section V. Heat Cramps
Section VI. Heat Exhaustion
Section VII. Heatstroke
Section VIII. Prevention of Heat Injuries
Exercises
5 COLD INJURIES
Section I. Characteristics/General Findings of Cold
Injuries
Section II. Nonfreezing Cold Injuries
Section III. Freezing Cold Injury: Frostbite
Section IV. Hypothermia
Section V. Sensitization to Cold Injuries
Exercises
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LESSON 1
IMMUNIZATIONS/DISEASE REPORTING
Section I. PURPOSES OF IMMUNIZATION/PERSONNEL ELIGIBLE
FOR THE ARMY IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM
1-1. INTRODUCTION
The immunization procedures for the United States
armed forces are regularly evaluated and updated. Requirements are
precisely related to the geographic area of military duty; therefore,
the world is divided into four areas.
a. Area I. United States, Canada, Greenland,
Iceland, Kwajalein Atoll, Guam, Pacific Islands east of the 180th
meridian, North and South Polar regions including the Antarctic
continent, Bermuda, Bahama Islands, Baja California, and the area in
Mexico north of a line 50 miles south of the United States-Mexico
border.
b. Area II. All areas outside Area I,
including Areas IIP and IIY.
c. Area IIP (Plague). Cambodia, Laos, and
Vietnam.
d. Area IIY (Yellow Fever). Central America
southeast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Panama, South America, and
Africa south of the Sahara.
1-2. PURPOSES OF IMMUNIZATION
a. A person can become immune to some diseases
naturally by having the disease. However, if a person wants to acquire
a certain kind of immunity at a particular time, it is difficult to
predict whether the natural process will occur, when it will occur, or
whether the infection will cause a severe or fatal disease. It is
often desirable to develop immunity safely, with certainty, at certain
times, and in certain people.
b. It is desirable for members of the armed forces to
have immunizations to conserve their fighting strength by preventing
personnel from having diseases which might interfere with the
accomplishment of the military mission. Historically, more soldiers
have died from diseases which today can be prevented than have died
from enemy weapons. Immunizations assure that military units can
perform their mission anywhere in the world without delay or detention
in travel and without the danger of disease.
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Immunizations and Environmental Injuries
