Final Exam Preventative Care Strategies 1 + 2 Flashcards
What are the 3 economic risks associated with animal disease?
- Productivity loss
- Market disruptions
- Livelihood risks
What are the 3 human health risks associated with animal disease?
- pandemic disease
- endemic disease
- Food borne illness
Infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans
Zoonosis
Inhibiting the introduction or establishment of a disease into an area, herd, or individual
Prevention of Infectious disease
Consist of steps taken to reduce the problem to a tolerable level
Control efforts
What are 3 common control efforts?
- quarantine
- disinfection
- culling of host an incineration
Involves complete elimination of the pathogen or the disease-causing agent from a defined geographic region
Eradication
What are the 3 levels of prevention of infectious disease
- primary- avoid occurrence of ID
- Secondary- minimize result of damage after disease occures
- Tertiary- Rehabilitation
Aimed at maintaining a healthy population, by adopting measures to avoid occurrence of disease either through eliminating the pathogen or inc resistance to disease
Primary prevention
What are the 2 types of primary prevention?
1 health promotion
2. specific protection
What are some examples of health promotion?
- education
- good hygiene
- nutrition
- epigenetics
What are some examples of specific protection
- immunization
- seroprophylaxis
- chemopropjylaxis
- supplements
- protection against occupational hazards
Action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient/early stage and prevents complications
Secondary prevention
Secondary prevention relies on what?
- early diagnosis
2. prompt treatment and control (quarantine)
Which level of prevention is focused on an individual level?
Secondary
Consists of rehabilitation, elimination, of long term impairment
tertiary
What are the 2 categories of farm biosecurity?
- external biosecurity
2. internal biosecurity
what is external biosecurity?
measures taken to prevent an infectious disease from entering or leaving the farm
what is internal biosecurity
measures taken to combat spread of an infectious disease within the farm
What are the 7 points concerning the purchasing policy?
- Closed herd system
- reduce # of animals brought in to farm
- limit number of farms animals come from
- determine vacc. and health status of new animals
- know sanitary status of farms animals coming from
- quarantine
- vaccination
The time elapsed b/t infection and when clinical symptoms are first apparent
Incubation period
What is the principle of the dirty and clean road?
Need 2 roads to access the farm, a clean and dirty. the clean is for staff and clean animals to enter, the dirty is for visitors, feed, drop off, dead animals, manure