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Avian Flu
Bio-Security Measures
Importance of Bio-Security: Stop the disease at the Farm Gate !!
Bio-Security is the prevention of disease causing agents entering or leaving any place where farm animals are. It involves a number of measures and protocols designed to prevent disease causing agents from entering or leaving a property and being spread.
Preventing the introduction of disease agents is a continuous challenge for intensive animal breeders
and veterinarians. When a farm or site is affected by disease the impact can be devastating to animal
and human health as well as to the producer’s bottom line. To protect their own interests and those of their
colleagues, producers need to initiate an appropriate level of Bio-Security on their farms.
How Diseases Spread:
- Movement of animals, people, vehicles and equipment between and within farms
- Introduction of animals of low or unknown health status
- Contact with neighbours' animals
- Using shared farm equipment and vehicles which have not been effectively cleansed and disinfected
- Contact with pest and wild animals
- Drinking from contaminated water sources
- Eating contaminated feed
- Unsatisfactory cleaning and disinfection of vehicles, sheds, feeding
- Troughs and other equipment
Potential transmission routes of pathogenes
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