FAD Vaccination Planning

This plan prepares New Mexico agricultural and emergency preparedness stakeholders to respond to a foreign animal disease (FAD) by developing vaccination strategies and plans with the agricultural industry, intertribal, interstate, and international coordination.

Multiple dynamics make New Mexican vaccination plans uniquely complex. New Mexico sits at the nexus of essential trade paths, including the largest international livestock border crossing in the United States, an interstate border with five states, and sovereign tribal land. New Mexico also has the largest dairy herd in the United States, where normal vaccination processes could quickly be overcome. As a result, the issues encountered here will provide a wide range of lessons that can inform vaccination plans throughout the country.

This plan will allow for the creation of unique training resources to address these capacity limitations, including "just-in-time" (JIT) modules. These JIT trainings include resources for emergency/first-responder personnel, agricultural professionals, and volunteers on how to administer, record, and trace FAD emergency vaccinations.

New Mexico has a record of proactive planning and training. The Center, a cooperative between New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, is uniquely positioned to lead the development of a multi-agency vaccination plan to respond to a high consequence event. The Center has strong relationships and a record of collaboration with state and federal agencies and the livestock industry. The project incorporates the New Mexico Livestock Board, the state animal health official and the New Mexico Agriculture Livestock Incident Response Team, a premier group of large animal veterinarians strategically located throughout the state, who are trained to respond to large animal emergencies.

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