State Veterinarian (11)

Question 1

What is a state public health veterinarian?

Answer 1

veterinarian dedicated to address zoonotic public health issues

• address zoonosis, vector-borne diseases, antibiotic resistance, food & water safety, and rabies

Question 2

Where does a state veterinarian fall in the Kentucky Department of Public Health?

Answer 2

epidemiology and health planning

Question 3

What is the goal of 10 essential public health services?

Answer 3

systematically identifies, investigates, and diagnoses health problems & hazards

designed to monitor progress in each area

Question 4

Epidemiology is mostly involved in what domain of Public Health Service? Why?

Answer 4

assessment

to monitor health
investigate, diagnose, root causes

Question 5

What are the infectious disease surveillances?

Answer 5

state level
local level

Question 6

What is the chain of reporting?

Answer 6

Question 7

Why surveillance?

Answer 7

intervention & prevention

know your normal

understand the disease process - have interventions to stop disease and prevent future outbreaks

Question 8

What is the role of the state public health veterinarian?

Answer 8

Question 9

What is the rabies program?

Answer 9

maintain rabies data
animal bite consults and follow up - rabies post-exposure prophylaxis and animal quarantine

maintain data, consults, follow up with positive cases

Question 10

In the US, who is the most common carrier of rabies?

Answer 10

bats

Question 11

What is the new pre-vaccination schedule for rabies?

Answer 11

now only two vaccines: days 0 and 7