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• <br />• <br />• <br />Anoka County Multi - Jurisdictional <br />All Hazards Mitigation Plan <br />Anoka County has experienced minor cases of infectious diseases over the last 50 years that <br />have been considered isolated occurrences or minor exposures. <br />In 1952 there were 20 cases of polio reported in Anoka County. <br />In July 2005, officials with Anoka County closed Coon Lake Beach in the City of Columbus for <br />four days following an E. Coli outbreak that sickened at least four children. <br />Anoka County has developed a mass clinic plan to administer vaccine and other necessary <br />drugs in the event of an epidemic or pandemic event. This plan was tested in August 2004 <br />during the county's participation in the Strategic National Stockpile drill and has been revised to <br />remediate weaknesses discovered in the plan. <br />Anoka County has experienced 10 pandemic /epidemic incidents over 94 years. The impact was <br />89 fatalities and 5,929 injuries. <br />Anoka County and its municipalities have experienced illness and fatalities from <br />pandemic /epidemic events, and the county is at risk of future events. The entire county would <br />be equally impacted by pandemic /epidemic events. <br />A detailed event lists of epidemics /pandemics that have impacted Anoka County in the past is <br />provided in Appendix A. <br />