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Dealing with a simulated rabies outbreak: a test of teamwork
Author(s) -
Blayney Nick
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.24.4.225
Subject(s) - outbreak , rabies , notifiable disease , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , teamwork , veterinary medicine , test (biology) , medicine , operations research , virology , disease , political science , biology , computer science , pathology , law , engineering , paleontology , artificial intelligence
RECENT epizootiological events have reinforced the need for contingency planning in anticipation of outbreaks of notifiable disease. In this article, Nick Blayney, who took part as a veterinary surgeon in practice, gives an account of a one‐day exercise staged by Warwickshire County Council, prior to February 2001, to test the official response to a hypothetical incident of rabies.