Animal Disease Emergency

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AnimalDisease Emergency

• George Teagarden
• Livestock Commissioner
• KS Animal Health Dept

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KANSAS LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY12 Billion

• Cattle
• 6.6m head feedlot capacity
• 8.9m head processed
• Ranks 2nd
• 5.5m fed
• Ranks 2nd
• 1.5m grazed
• 1.5m cows

• Swine
• 150,000 sows
• 3m feeder pigs
• Dairy
• 88,000 cows
• Sheep
• 100,000 head
• Meat processing - 18,700 employees

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Kansas Beef

• 2nd, 5.5 m , fed cattle marketed
• 2nd, 8.9m, cattle processed by packers
• 2nd, 322.6 m, value of exported hides
• 3rd, 5.63 bn , red meat production
• 3rd, 6.65 m, cattle on ranches feedlots
• 6th, 1.55 m, beef cows

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United States

• 1 in 6 US jobs
• Direct or indirect tied to Agriculture

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Emergency Plan

• Quick Action
• USDA Secretarys Declaration
• Governors Declaration of Emergency
• County Emergency Declaration
• Presidential Declaration

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Gold Standard for Intentional Introduction Foot
and Mouth

• Most contagious animal virus
• One virus inhaled, ten ingested infection
• 10 20 mortality, up to 95 morbidity
• Susceptible cloven hoofed (cattle, swine,
  sheep, goats, deer, NOT humans)

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Ramifications of an FMD Outbreak

• Routine Foreign Animal Investigation in Holton,
  KS- word leaks out cattle futures, live prices,
  grain prices, stocks plummet
• Real outbreak costs untold billions
• Recent exercise 20 states affected at day 30
  gt700,000 personnel needed

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FMD National Emergency

• 1 case Exports stop, animal movements halted,
  quarantine zones, animals destroyed, entire
  economy affected
• Infected premises pay for all livestock
  depopulated at pre-disaster prices
• Government pays all costs associated with
  response
• Many producer costs not reimbursed, unless
  congress reacts

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1st Line of Defense

• Producer and Veterinary Practitioner
• Recognize, Report, Respond
• Biosecurity Plan - Develop Plan with Vet

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PLAYERS

• Governor
• TAG (KEM KSNG)
• KS National Guard
• Kansas Animal Health Dept
• USDA Veterinary Services
• County Emergency Management
• KHP
• KDA
• KDHE
• KDOT

• KBI
• KDofA - DISC
• KWLP
• SRS
• KSU - College of Vet Medicine Extension Service
• Producers
• Private Veterinary Practitioners
• Consumers
• Local LEPC

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EOC Levels FAD Response Actions

• Level 1
• Normal Operations / surveillance
• Level 2
• FAD investigation
• Level 3
• Highly likely case
• Level 4
• Confirmation of FAD

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Confirmed Positive

• Governor declares State of Disaster Emergency
• Public Information Team (PIT) coordinates media
  release
• State EOC Activated - Level 4
• State support agencies report

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Index Case

• Considered terrorist attack
• Crime scene
• Depart of Homeland Defense
• FBI investigates
• KBI involved
• Local law enforcement

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Level 4

• Kansas closes borders
• Susceptible species
• Markets and slaughter facilities closed
• In-transit livestock
• Returned to origin
• Routed around Q zone
• Holding facility

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Level 4

• State Task Force (disease control)
• Establishes 6 mile radius Q Zone
• Informs local EM, asks for help!!!!
• Begins operations of control and eradication
• State EOC
• Notifies adjacent EM Offices
• KSNG activated- security, burial

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Quarantine Area
Surveillance Zone
4.5 mi. radius
1.5 mi. radius
A Quarantine Area will be imposed around every
outbreak discovered
Exposed Zone
Infected Premises
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Feedlot Cluster Finney Co
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Level 4

• Affected County
• Activates Local Emergency Plan
• Stands up local EOC
• Requests mutual aid
• Coordinates media release with PIT

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Expected of Local EM

• 1st Responders
• Support of disease and eradication efforts
• Critical Needs
• Security
• Decontamination equipment
• Heavy equipment - burial

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First 24 - 48 Hours

• Secure Q Zone
• Stop All Livestock Movement
• Holding facilities
• Decontamination
• Premises
• Traffic
• Burial

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Support Staff

• Diagnose, surveillance, burial, C D
• 100 cow herd
• 16 hours of daylight
• 24 hr/day security (12 hr shifts)
• 16 veterinarians
• 125 people total

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Public Information Team

• Outbreak news
• Producer information
• Consumer information
• Phone bank
• Media conferences

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Funding

• USDA
• Indemnity for livestock taken
• Euthanasia and disposal
• CD
• Presidential
• FEMA
• Documented expenses

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Role of Law Enforcement

• FBI Crime scene investigation
• KBI Crime scene investigation
• Trace movements
• KHP Stop movement, Quarantine Security
• County Sheriff Stop movement, Quarantine
  security, Enforcement of disease control orders

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Military Involvement

• KNG
• Stop movement
• Quarantine security
• Disposal burial
• Cleaning disinfection
• US Military (Presidential Declaration)

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Governors Authorities

• KSA 48-924, 929, 932
• States assets
• Length of declaration
• County disaster plan
• Powers and duties of county city officials

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Agriculture in Kansas is a very vulnerable target

• Intelligence gathered in caves in Afghanistan
  indicate that terrorists have discussed using
  bio-weapons on the U.S. food chain

• Terrorists like agriculture as a target because

• FMD is easy to transport, and low tech

• More personal safety

• Soft targets

• Low detection profile

• Easier deniability

• Less retaliatory risk

• Fewer ethical issues

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First things first!!

• In an outbreak of FAD, time is critical in
  bringing the disease under control, and beginning
  the disease eradication process

• A County plan for foreign animal disease
  emergencies is imperative for the protection of
  your County

• Having a County plan in place will enable your
  County to activate your plan within minutes or
  hours instead of days

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So if our County Plan is finished, we can
relax..RIGHT???

• Wrong!!!
• Your job is only half finished!
• Your County Emergency Plan is a high
  maintenance plan---one that will need routine

Taking out and dusting off
Reviewing and updating

• Exercising !!

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Exactly what is an exercise??

• Sometimes called a table-top exercise, because
  most of it takes place at the local EOC an
  exercise is built around a made-up scenario of
  the time between discovery of a suspected foreign
  animal disease, and its confirmation, and when
  State and Federal help arrives on-scene, or maybe
  past that.

• Committee members and players are given the
  scenario, and are expected to work out the
  problems according to their prospective roles in
  the County Plan, as if it were a real life
  situation.

• The scenario is designed to exercise all aspects
  of the Plan, so adjustments can be made to it, if
  needed, for faster and more efficient response in
  a critical real-time event.

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So, what will exercising our Plan
accomplish?
Through exercising, your County will

• Stay current on foreign animal disease response
  strategies
• Keep the County Plan fresh in all players minds
• Continue to refine the Plan through the trials
  and errors revealed while participating in
  exercises
• Learn to better manage Public Information
  dissemination at the County level (a critical
  component of the Plan)

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