FEMA to host joint influenza pandemic exercise

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be hosting Operation PANEX ‘07, a joint federal-state exercise to strengthen contingency plans for an influenza pandemic. PANEX ‘07 is the first functional exercise of its type in the U.S. designed to determine best practices for a coordinated multi-agency response to an outbreak. The participants will involve key federal agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Defense in partnership with their counterparts in the six New England states. The operation is part of an ongoing development opportunity to exercise established procedures and coordinated plans of action for disseminating public information and resource allocation. State Emergency Operations Centers will be activated and participating federal agencies will work with state and local health officials and emergency managers to respond to the simulated event.

Source: http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=41901