Animal health Flashcards
It refers to physiological well being of an animal
Animal health
Defines as an illness or a malady or an impairment of normal body health
Disease
Example of infectious diseases
Viruses, Bacteria, Fungi, protozoans, internal and external parasites
Non infectious diseases
Genetic defects, nutritional deficiencies, metabolic disorder and toxicities or poisonings
Abnormal deviation from the healthy state of the animal
Disease
Objective manifestation of the disease
Clinical signs
Subjective manifestation of disease by the animals
Symptoms
Name given to a disease so that each doctor means the same syndrome as every other veterinarian
Diagnosis
Forecast of te progress of the disease affecting the animals
Prognosis
Animal that harbors the parasites
Host
Where the parasite will exert its harmful affects and may undergoes reproduction
Final host
An animal that temporarily harbors tha immature stage of the parasites
Intermediate host
An organism that lives on or in another organism and usually causes harm to the latter
Parasites
Percentage of animal that clinically affected compared to the total number of animal to the same risk
Morbidity rate
Percentage of affecting animal that die
Mortality rate
Give signs that indicate a healthy animals
Contentment
Alertness
Chewing of cud
Sleek coat
Bright eyes and pink eye membrane
Normal feces, temperature, pulse rate and respiration
Unhealthy animal
Loss of appetite
Rough hair coat
Abnormal feces
Dull eyes
High temperature
Discolored urine
Ruminants not chewing their cud
3 classification of disease occurrence in a place
Epidemic(community or region)
Pandemic(continent or worldwide)
Endemic(constantly affected every year)
Enzootic diseases(limited district)
Disease based on it’s course
Peracute
Acute
Subacute
Chronic
Animal dies without apparent symptoms
Peracute
There are sudden onset of Severe symptoms and is usually fatal to the animal
Acute
Between chronic an acute(transmissible)
Subacute