Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Coordinated international response to a bioterrorist attack was simulated in Montreux 7 and 8 September in an exercise code-named Black Ice II, according to the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs. The exercise simulated an attack resulting in a pneumonic plague epidemic, and tested the institutional response to such an attack in order to better prepare for the real thing.
Officials representing international organizations concerned with public health, security, tranportation, and law enforcement took part in the exercise. The organizations concerned ranged from Nato, OSCE, and Interpol to the World Health Organization (WHO), Panamerican Health Organization (Paho) and the UN Office for Disarmement Affairs (Unoda), as well as experts from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Red Cross (ICRC, FIRC).
Black Ice II was a follow-up on the original Black Ice simulation also held in Montreux in September 2006
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News story, GenevaLunch, 9 September 2009.
Filed under: International organizations
Tags: bioterrorist attack, FIRC, ICRC, law enforecment, Montreux, Paho, public health, security, simulation, transportation, UNODA, WFP, WHO
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