HQ Travel for Emergency Poultry Disease Response Course

APHIS sponsored an Emergency Poultry Disease Response course, an intensive five (5) day program taught in English.

The course consisted of a mixture of seminar, discussions, and hands-on technology demonstrations, covering: OIE reportable poultry diseases including avian influenza virus; surveillance, biosecurity, outbreak response and control, incident command structures; protecting the responder; and depopulation, disposal, composting, and decontamination.

The training program presented and utilized the Delaware model, which emphasized close cooperation between government, industry and educational institutions to manage disease outbreaks utilizing best management practices and technologies related to controlling avian influenza and other catastrophic disease outbreaks.