Australia’s animal disease preparedness is being put to the test across the country this week, with a series of simulation exercises to prepare animal health laboratories for large-scale disease outbreaks.
Labs in every state, along with the Northern Territory, are taking part in the 3-day simulation, dubbed Exercise Waterhole, which began yesterday.
The functional exercise sees staff respond to two simultaneous animal disease outbreaks and involves all jurisdictional labs.
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Murray Watt, said the exercise was a stress-test of…
