| Animal
Biosecurity |
| In the context of
animal agriculture, biosecurity is the series of management
steps taken to prevent the introduction of infectious
agents into a herd or flock. |
| Anthrax |
| Anthrax is an infectious
disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium called as
Bacillus anthracis. ANTHRAX IS A ZOONOTIC DISEASE (a disease
shared between animals and humans). In humans, anthrax
is rarely reported. Untreated anthrax is often fatal,
especially the respiratory type of anthrax infection. |
| Avian
Influenza |
| Type A influenza viruses can infect
several animal species, including birds, pigs, horses,
seals and whales. Influenza viruses that infect birds
are called “avian influenza viruses.” |
| Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) |
| Bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE), also termed "Mad Cow Disease",
is one of a number of slowly progressive, degenerative
neurologic diseases in animals and man classified as Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE). |
| Chronic
Wasting Disease (CWD) |
| CWD has been detected in wild
and captive herds of deer, elk and mule deer in several
western states, Wisconsin and Canada. It is a progressive
and always fatal disease of the nervous system afflicting
wild and captive cervids. Scientists theorize that CWD
is caused by an unknown agent capable of transforming
normal brain proteins into an abnormal form. |
| Exotic Newcastle
Disease (END) |
| Exotic Newcastle disease (END)
is a contagious and fatal viral disease affecting all
species of birds. |
| Foot
and Mouth Disease (FMD) |
| Foot-and-mouth disease is one
of the most highly contagious animal diseases known. It
is caused by a virus that can infect cattle, swine, sheep,
goats, other cloven-hooved animals, elephants, hedgehogs,
rats, and mice. Infections in humans are extremely rare
and non-fatal when they occur. |
| Lyme
Disease |
| Lyme Disease is an infection caused
by Borrelia burgdorferi, a member of the family of corkscrew-shaped
bacteria known as spirochetes and is transmitted by ticks. |
| Johne's
Disease |
| Johne's disease, pronounced YO-knees,
is a contagious bacterial disease of the intestinal tract.
Johne's disease occurs in a wide variety of animals, but
most often in ruminants. |
| Vesicular
Stomatitis |
| Vesicular stomatitis is a viral
disease that primarily affects cattle, horses, and swine.
The virus that causes vesicular stomatitis has a wide
host range. This disease also occasionally affects sheep
and goats. Many species of wild animals, including deer,
bobcats, goats, raccoons, and monkeys, have been found
to be susceptible hosts. Humans can also become infected
with vesicular stomatitis when handling affected animals.
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| West
Nile Virus |
| Infected mosquitoes transmit the
West Nile virus. These mosquitoes usually bite and infect
wild birds -- the primary host of the virus -- but can
also infect horses and other mammals, in addition to humans. |
