SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

Functional Exercise – Operation Vigilant Sample IV (OVS IV), July 2015 • Led by CPT Bryon Marsh, 4 th CST • Participants included - 4 th and 48 th NGB CSTs - FL and GA State Dept. of Health, APHL - DHS BioWatch - Local first responders: Calhoun, Cherokee,

Guardian Centers, Perry, GA

Cobb, and Dalton County Fire Depts. - GA BioWatch Advisory Committee - EPA and FBI Atlanta Field Offices - Signature Science

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OVS IV Overview • Conducted in real-time, using state response plans and local responders • Designed to help define a national exercise template for CST Commanders • Exercise components included – Initial suspected threat event (putative Yersinia pestis ) – BioWatch Actionable Result (BAR) – Phase I sampling – Phase II sampling • EPA approval obtained to use yeast (TERA) • Sampling protocol based on CDC/NIOSH protocol 1

1 Surface sampling procedures for Bacillus anthracis spores from smooth, non-porous surfaces, 2012. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/emres/surface-sampling-bacillus-anthracis.html

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