BOZEMAN – The Montana Agro-Emergency Preparedness Committee will present the tabletop scenario and exercise “Locally Responding to Foot and Mouth Disease” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Montana State University in Bozeman. The event will take place at the Procrastinator Theatre in the Strand Union Building.

This literal tabletop exercise is an interactive training tool that uses a scale model of a rural American community including farms, ranches, livestock facilities and a small town to help participants visualize what would occur locally during an animal disease disaster. The exercise walks the audience through a foot and mouth disease outbreak focusing on the effects at the local level and the operations that must occur to contain, manage and eradicate the disease.

This training event is distributed through the Montana Agro-Emergency Preparedness Committee and MSU Extension. It is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Montana Disaster and Emergency Services. Through grant funding and agency cooperation, the program is provided at no cost to participants.

Continuing Education credits have been requested for veterinarians, veterinary technicians and professional animal scientists.

For more information and registration, please visit the Official Event Website.