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A report of a discussion-based simulation exercise in Texas, the United States of America (FMD free), for an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The report describes planning, execution and evaluation of the Texas Emergency Response Team's involvement in the Tripartite Functional Exercise.
Author: W.L. Riggs and K.Walrup, United States Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service and Texas Animal Health commision
Date: 2000
This contingency plan for the Netherlands (FMD free) includes planning on financial provision, disease control centres, diagnostic laboratories and emergency vaccination in the event of an foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the Netherlands.
Author: Veterinary Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, The Netherlands
Date: 2000
This paper describes the control strategies used in the 1997 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan Province of China and how these affected the epidemiology and progression of the outbreak.
Author: P. C. Yang, R. M. Chu, W. B. Chung, H. T. Sung
Date: 1999
This study provides the impacts of alternative responses to a hypothetical foot‐and-mouth disease outbreak occurring in the Midwestern United States are estimated using the Regional Economic Modelling Incorporated Policy Insight + (REMI) computable general equilibrium model, with particular attention paid to the employment impact estimates.
Author: Maryfrances Miller, Lirong Liu, Steven Shwiff, Stephanie Shwiff
Date: 1999
This manual provides an overall plan of national animal disease emergency preparedness plans on which early and effective action can be mounted in the face of an emergency.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Date: 1999