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Question 1

Courts of law?

Answer 1

• District courts.
• County courts.
• High courts of appeal.
• Supreme court.
• Jurisdiction + competence.

Question 2

Committing a crime with intent meaning?

Answer 2

• The person conceives a plan to achieve a certain result,/ acquiesces to the consequences of his conduct.

Question 3

Who cannot testify in a civil suit?

Answer 3

• By any close relative of the parties.
• Any person whose testimony would implicate himself/ his close relative referred to in the commission of crime, to the extent covered by that subject.
• By attorneys, doctors + other persons bound to confidentiality stemming from their profession, if their testimony would entail their having to breach the obligation of confidentiality, except if the concerned party granted an exemption from this obligation.
• Persons bound to keep business secrets in respect of the subjects if their testimony would entail their having to breach the obligation of confidentiality.

Question 4

Criminal offence with harmful consumer goods?

Answer 4

• Any person who prepares/ possesses any consumer goods for the purpose of distribution that is harmful to health is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• The person who committed the criminal offenses shall ø be prosecuted if he makes every effort, upon gaining knowledge of the harmful nature of the consumer goods, to regain possession of the harmful consumer goods in question,/ to prevent their being placed on the market.

Question 5

When to refuse to treat?

Answer 5

• Obligatory:
  > Against the law
  > Euthanasia, irreversible changes: ownership, declaration
  > Hereditary diseases in breeding animals, without neutering
  > Lack of competence, practice, experience, equipments,
  > ø scientific basis.

Question 6

Significance of hip dysplasia?

Answer 6

• X-ray: age!
• Breeding or working animal: all stages
• Non-breeding animal: if clinical manifestation.

Question 7

O of fowl typhoid.

Answer 7

• Death during the first 5 days could be originated back to the hatchery
• To the breeding flock: if the hatchery complied with the rules.
• Tests: blood tests, examination of dead eggs
• Deaths after 5 days of age: epidemic investigation.

Question 8

Significance of Sus erysipelas?

Answer 8

• Acute case: if death

- Chronic case: arthritis, skin necrosis or endocarditis.

Question 9

Diagnosis of Bo tuberculosis?

Answer 9

• Veterinary institute: bacteriology, histopathology
• Disease: CS, PM lesions, isolation of M. bovis, +ve intradermal tuberculin tests
• Suspected of being diseased: +ve intradermal tuberculin test.

Question 10

O of 1º GI disease.

Answer 10

• ‘feeding accident’
• Buyer: contributory negligence
• 1st signs: within 24 hours
• Caecal impaction: 1-2 weeks
• 4 weeks:
  >Weight of free caecum: empty weight >4.5 kg,
  > dry content >20 kg,
  > thickness of caecum head wall muscular layer >2 mm.