NCJ Number
189708
Date Published
2001
Length
14 pages
Annotation
This document provides guidance for a response to a highly contagious animal disease and includes a concept of operations, movement control guidelines, and foot-and-mouth disease operational guidelines.
Abstract
The goal of the emergency response plan is to detect, control and eradicate a highly contagious disease as quickly as possible. The Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostician (FADD) will classify the assessment "unlikely," "possible," or "highly likely." If the assessment is highly likely, samples are taken, a quarantine may be imposed, and a movement control zone will be established. If the sample is positive, a number of tasks will be performed, including the imposition of a quarantine and consideration of depopulating the herd. The State Emergency Management Director will activate the State response plan. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will perform activities, such as notifying appropriate Federal agencies and coordinating national surveillance activities. Glossary, appendixes