Further distribution is highly encouraged.
The nine-person team was assigned to Joint Task Force Antigua at Camp Blizard, the Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force's military base. The team supported the JTF and worked with the Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Health to provide training and other support for their public health programs. Michael Medina, MSC, the team's medical planner. Members of the team were paired off with local public health officials to help identify and mitigate public health risks in local business and government facilities. They surveyed suspected mosquito breeding grounds, assisted in sanitation inspections in hotels and restaurants, conducted indoor air quality and noise studies in several government facilities, and used rapid laboratory diagnostic procedures to screen human, animal and environmental samples for infectious disease agents.