National ABC deployment concept - 12. -

12. Mobile Animal Disease Control Center (Dörverden-Barme)

The Mobile Animal Disease Control Center (MBZ) has been developed since 2002 by the Defense Technical Service for Pioneer and Troop Equipment (WTD 51) in Koblenz-Rübenach. (35) It was manufactured by the SÄBU company in Morsbach. On February 12, 2007, the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (LAVES) in Oldenburg put the disease center into service. (36)

The center is stored at the branch of the Federal School of the Technical Relief Organization (THW) in Dörverden-Barme. If an animal disease breaks out in a district (bluetongue, foot-and-mouth disease, swine flu, etc.), the center is ready for action within five days to take over on-site operations management. The workforce consists of 200 in-house employees and around 900 field workers. The staff is provided by the LAVES Veterinary Task Force, headed by Dr. Ursula Gerdes is led. A field camp consists of up to 71 modular containers. In addition to laboratories, hygiene units and material stores, there are also office and communication containers. The center is connected to the Animal Disease Messaging System (TSN). The stock of vaccination sets and 20.000 sets of NBC protective clothing carried with them should be sufficient for a fortnightly deployment. The cost of building the MBZ amounted to 2,8 million euros. In addition to the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB), the federal states, especially Bavaria, contributed to the costs.

The THW branch in Verden is responsible for maintenance. On September 20 and 21, 2007, the MBZ took part for the first time in a two-day animal disease exercise in which the four districts of Stade, Cuxhaven, Osterholz and Rotenburg (Wümme) also took part. Five outbreaks of swine fever in communities in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district were assumed to be the exercise scenario. (37)

Address:

THW-BuS Hoya - Barme water exercise area

Weserstr. 30th

27313 Barmen

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Sources:

(35) Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement: Mobile Animal Disease Control Center handed over to the regional working group, Koblenz, January 8, 2008

(36) Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety: Animal Disease Control in Lower Saxony, Oldenburg, undated,
Online: http://www.laves.niedersachsen.de/master/C12035896_N15703700_L20_D0_I826.html

(37) Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety: Large animal disease exercise from four districts, press release No. 032, Oldenburg, September 21, 2007

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