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Exercise will test state?s ability to respond to livestock disease outbreak
Ben Unglesbee
October 9, 2013
An upcoming exercise on the Kansas State University campus to test state response to an viral outbreak in livestock is two years in the preparation and includes plans and countless contingencies for everything from traffic monitoring to communicating with the media.
Here's something the exercise's designers didn't prepare for: One of the biggest players in such an emergency and hence the exercise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is absent due to the federal government shutdown.
But the ag emergency preparedness exercise must go on. Sandra Johnson, emergency management coordinator for the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said the USDA's role will be simulated by exercise participants...
Exercise will test state?s ability to respond to livestock disease outbreak
Ben Unglesbee
October 9, 2013
An upcoming exercise on the Kansas State University campus to test state response to an viral outbreak in livestock is two years in the preparation and includes plans and countless contingencies for everything from traffic monitoring to communicating with the media.
Here's something the exercise's designers didn't prepare for: One of the biggest players in such an emergency and hence the exercise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is absent due to the federal government shutdown.
But the ag emergency preparedness exercise must go on. Sandra Johnson, emergency management coordinator for the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said the USDA's role will be simulated by exercise participants...