FMD Exercise Hornbeam

Originally from: mona parr
                        
Hornbeam": role-playing exercise to test Government's responses to a foot and mouth outbreak taking place 29–30 June

Over the next two days (29–30 June) a national exercise to test Defra's contingency plans for a future outbreak of foot and mouth disease will be taking place.

The exercise is code-named 'Hornbeam'. During the exercise people from across Defra and its agencies will be role-playing days seven and eight of an FMD outbreak. Media representatives have been invited to attend briefings on both days of the exercise.

The exercise has been developed by the State Veterinary Service contingency division. It is the culmination of a series of exercises looking at strategic, tactical and operational responses to an FMD outbreak.

See Defra news release 232/04 (18 June 2004
                        

Originally from: Bill
                        
Expect people by the hundreds flocking to the supposed site where the most contagious virus on the planet has been detected!

Best way to stop the spread of FMD would be to teach everbody concerned the meaning of the word "contagious".

Bill.
                        

Originally from: coleen
                        
No chance of that Bill, in the interview this morning they said that one of main concerns would be to make sure that the public knew that the Countryside would still be open for business. Human nature will of course then make people go and visit the places (just as they all stop and stare at a motorway accident – or some other tradedy).

Coleen