Morbidity and mortality monitoring, response, and technical assistance

• Assemble and distribute morbidity and mortality response kits
• Conduct training and preparedness activities for response to mortality events
  
  
  • Regional (refuges – field investigation, management plans, contingency plans)
   
  • Incident response (managerial level – incident command training, communications plans, contingency plans)
  • Building expertise: present courses providing in depth information on emerging, exotic, and indigenous avian diseases; work with NCTC, NWHC, SCWDS to present training sessions
    
    
  
• Conduct table top and field exercises for disease response
• Collaborate with refuges, state agencies, disease laboratories to ensure carcass collection, mortality investigation