Exercise Overview

This exercise served as an opportunity for neighborhood leaders and residents to learn how to become better prepared for a INFLUENZA PANDEMIC. Working together in a simulated neighborhood environment, residents planned and prepared for and responded to a significant influenza pandemic.

The following organizations undertook the coordination of this very unique disaster learning opportunity.

• Association of Contingency Planners
• Big Bend Community Organizations Active in Disaster
• Capital Medical Society
• Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross
• City of Tallahassee
• Florida Department of Financial Services
• Leon County
• Leon County Health Department
• Leon County Sheriff's Office - Division of Emergency Management
• Tallahassee / Leon County Council of Neighborhood Associations

Exercise Scenario

A new strain of influenza virus is discovered in a small village in southern China. Over the next 60 days this virus traveled arround the globe launching a deadly influenza pandemic.

Exercise Recomendation

Prior to the Pandemic Pandemonium Tabletop Exercise participants should take the opportunity to review the materials found at the following web sites:

Exercise Conclusion

The Pandemic Pandemonium  Tabletop Exercise was held on the morning of  October 17 2009 at Good Samaritan United Methodist Church in Tallahassee Florida.

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