Animal Health Flashcards
- Only authorized personnel are allowed to enter the farm
- Farm premises should be free of vermins and insects
- Provides baths for footwear upon entering each of the farm houses within the farm premises
- Provide wheel baths to all vehicles that enter the farm
- Disinfectants use for both wheel and footbaths are known to kill a lot of viruses, bacteria, fungus and protozoans
- Farm should not be close to each other
BIOSECURITY
Preventive Medicine
A. VACCINATION
B. DEWORMING
C. NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION
The word vaccine is derived from this Latin word
VACCA
In English, Vacca is…
CATTLE
An English Physician who noticed that milk maids never get infected with the smallpox virus
EDWARD JENNER
The year Edward Jenner discovered that milk maids could not be infected with the smallpox virus
1796
Used as the vaccine against smallpox virus
COWPOX VIRUS
When did the WHO officially declared the smallpox virus eradicated?
MAY 8,1979
A viral infection that ravaged cattle
RINDERPEST
The year the Office Internationale des Epizooties (OIE) declared Rinderpest to be eradicated worldwide
MAY 2015
2 Types of Immunity vaccines elicit
ACTIVE & PASSIVE IMMUNITIES
Giving drugs that kill and remove worms inside the body of an animal
DEWORMING
Giving nutritional supplements not only prevents nutritional problems but also strengthens the immunity of an animal
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION
