Canadian officials yesterday launched “Global Mercury,” a three-day exercise to test the international community’s ability to respond to a smallpox attack (see GSN, Aug. 13).

Health officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, Mexico and the European Commission are taking part in the exercise.  Officials from the World Health Organization are acting as advisers during the exercise.

“The main objective of the exercise is to test whether we can effectively, efficiently, and rapidly share medical information among countries for a fictitious smallpox event,” said a statement from Health Canada (Agence France-Presse, Sept. 9).

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