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| What are the aims of the SPS? |
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Definition
- To protect human and animal life from risks arising from additives, contaminants, toxins or organisms in food
- To protect human life from plant or animal diseases
- To protect plant and animal life from pests and diseases
- To prevent or limit the spread of disease or pests |
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| Does the SPS cover fish and wild fauna? |
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| Sanitary of PhytoSanitary |
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There are four bodies:
- World Trade Organisation
- International Plan Protection Convention
- World Organisation for Animal Health
- Codex Alimentarius Commission |
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| What are some of the ways that reproductive wastage can manifest? |
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Definition
-Abortions, stillbirths and mummified foestuses
- Weak neonates
- Infertility
- Reduced litter size (Early embryonic death) |
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| What are some of the main infectious causes of reproductive failure? |
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Definition
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)
Porcine Parvovirus (PPV)
Pseudorabies/Aujeszky's disease
Japanese B Encephalitis
Classical swine fever
Lepto
Brucella |
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| What is the main plan of action concerning reproductive diseases? |
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Definition
| Management and quarantine. There isn't always a treatment for the disease, so it is shitloads better to prevent the disease |
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| When is vaccination appropriate? |
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Definition
| Vaccination can be used for both control and prevention, and should be strongly considered for endemic diseases and diseases that are in the area. |
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Term
| What is 'feed-back', in relation to disease prevention? |
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Definition
Swill feeding of placenta, still born pigs and other really gross animal materials.
Swill feeding is illegal in Australia. |
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| What is the minimum distance recommended between pig farms? |
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Definition
3km, preferably further though.
Ideally, there will also be no wild pigs in the area. |
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| What are some reconsiderations for the introduction of new stock? |
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Definition
-Buy them all from a single source that has a similar health status
- Quarantine should be for 6-8 weeks at a facility at least 3km away
- Ideally, test serologically and virologically for diseases that you can
- Use and maintain an all in, all out system |
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| What are the key elements of the AUSVETPLAN? |
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Definition
- How to identify a threat
- What structures are set up to deal with it
- What procedures to follow
- What resources and personnel you will need
- What personnel must do
- How to deal with each disease
- How to deal with related problems |
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| What are the components of AUSVETPLAN? |
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- Summary document
- Disease stratergy manual
- Operational procedure manual
- Enterprise manual
- Management manual
- Wild animal response stratergies |
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| What control measures are used for PRRS? |
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Definition
Naive herds and biosecurity
Possible vaccination |
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Term
| What control measures are useful for Parvovirus? |
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Definition
| Killed vaccine is very effective |
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Term
| What control measures are useful for Psuedorabies? |
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Definition
| Biosecurity and vaccination |
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Term
| What control measures are useful for Classical swine fever? |
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Definition
| Vaccination, stringent import measures and killing of infected herds |
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| What control measures are useful for porcine enterovirus? |
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Definition
| Biosecurity and/or controlled exposure |
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Term
| What control measures are useful for bacterial, rickettsial, protozoal and fungal diseases? |
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Definition
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| What control measures are useful for Brucellosis? |
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Definition
| Biosecurity, Semen from brcellosis free herds, culling of infected animals, no contact with wild pigs |
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| What control measures are useful for Lepto? |
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Definition
| Vaccination, rodent control, santitation, antibiotics |
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Term
| What control measures are useful for erysipelas? |
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Definition
| Vaccination of 6-8wk old pigs, biosecurity, penicillin |
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Term
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| One Health is a concept that recognises that the health of humans and health of animals is intrinsically linked and both vets and doctors need to work together to prevent disease |
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| How does one calculate prevalence? |
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Definition
Proportion of the population affected right now divided by population present.
Sick
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Population |
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| How does one calculate incidence risk? |
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Definition
Incidence is over a period of time
Animals with a disease (over a certain time period)
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Total animals in the population |
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| How does one calculate incidence rate? |
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Definition
| Nooootttt too sure, google later |
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| How does one calculate attack rate? |
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Number of new cases
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Initial pop at risk |
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| How does one calculate mortality rate? |
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| Go watch the videos on calculating odds ratio and incidence rate and mortality rate |
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| What are Koch's postulates? |
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Definition
- The agent is present with all cases of the disease
- It does not occur in any other disease as a chance or non-pathogenic organism
- It can be isolated and fed to susceptible animals it causes disease |
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| What are the required steps in an outbreak investigation? |
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Definition
Confirm there is an outbreak
Establish provisional diagnosis
Determine the scope of the outbreak
Characterise the outbreak
Analyse initial data
Create and evaluate hypothesis
Further data collection and analysis
Implement control and preventive measures
Report and communicate findings |
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Term
| How can disease come onto a pig farm? |
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Definition
Semen
Replacement pigs
Feed
Wild animals
Birds
Trucks
Visitors
Vets
Consultants
Wild pigs
Livestock trucks
Basically anything |
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| What samples should be collected if a bacterial cause is suspected? |
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Definition
| Fresh foetal stomach contents, liver, lung as well as cervical-vaginal swabs |
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| What samples should you collect if parvovirus is suspected? |
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Definition
| Lung and liver from mummies as well as maternal bloods |
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Term
| What samples should you collect if swine flu or erysipelas is suspected? |
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Definition
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| What samples should you collect if brucelosis is suspected? |
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Definition
| Lymph nodes for culture nd maternal blood |
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Foetus/stillborn lung, tonsil, serum and lymphnodes
Maternal blood and foetal blood |
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| Foetal tissues, sow urine, maternal blood and foetal thoracic fluid |
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| Samples for aujeszky's disease (psuedorabies)? |
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Definition
Foetal heart, lung, liver, kidney, brain and placenta
Sow vaginal swab, grain, spleen and lung |
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| Foetal and affeced pigs, maternal bloods |
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| Basically everything you can get your hands on |
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| Aerobic gram -ve spirochetes, with L. pomona being the most common in piggies, with tarassovi coming in second |
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| What are some of the most common causes of endometritis and vaginal discharge? (bacteria wise) |
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| E coli, chlamydia, streptococcus, proteus, pasturealla multocida, pseudomonaas |
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| Samples for aujeszky's disease (psuedorabies)? |
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Foetal heart, lung, liver, kidney, brain and placenta
Sow vaginal swab, grain, spleen and lung |
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| Foetal and affeced pigs, maternal bloods |
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| Basically everything you can get your hands on |
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| Aerobic gram -ve spirochetes, with L. pomona being the most common in piggies, with tarassovi coming in second |
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| What are some of the most common causes of endometritis and vaginal discharge? (bacteria wise) |
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| E coli, chlamydia, streptococcus, proteus, pasturealla multocida, pseudomonaas |
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| What repro diseases are considered exotic to Aus? |
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| PRRS, psuedorabies, classical swine fever, |
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