ANFS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Livestock Dehorning, Buffer Zone, Personal Protective Equipment
12 Sep 2017
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Chytridiomycosis: an emerging infectious disease of amphibians caused by an aquatic zoosporic fungal pathogen. Was the worst animal disease outbreak in modern us history. Ia: . 2 billion impact: national: -3. 5 billion impact, mn: million impact, 9 states, 211 commercial, 21 backyard positive sites, turkeys: ~7. 5 million (7. 5%, chickens ~42. 1 million, 30% depletion of national layer hen flock, trade restrictions. **6 steps there is a general framework that can be used for any disease response. Biosecurity is the steps taken to keep disease away from a region/farm: poor biosecurity has been implicated in previous disease outbreaks (implicated for spread, three basic levels, daily operation, disease concern, outbreak response. In a animal disease, surveillance is a key component used to determine the scope and nature of the problem: cant test every animal in the population, how to test is also an issue, multiple target populations. They can go farther then they are supposed to.
