Disease control: Contingency Planning
Contingency Plans for the various notifiable diseases follow a standard format as required by the European Union, with minor differences of detail.
Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases
Defra's revised Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases was laid before Parliament on 10th December 2007. The plan covers arrangements for dealing with a range of exotic animal diseases, including Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza and, for the first time, Rabies and Bluetongue. Further information...
Exercise Hawthorn: National-Scale Avian Influenza Exercise, 5 April 2006
The Government, in partnership with the Devolved Administrations, began a real-time simulation of an outbreak of avian influenza disease in poultry in this country on the 5 April 2006 in order to check its contingency plans for the control of any such outbreak and those of its agencies and operational partners. This exercise was the culmination of a programme of smaller tabletop exercises and workshops. Further information...
See also
- A report on Exercise Hornbeam - A series of linked exercises testing Government’s Foot and Mouth Disease emergency preparedness, January - June 2004.
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