Emergency & exotic diseases Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
Q
What is an emergency disease?
A
Can be non-endemic to AUS and in national interest to keep it at bay. BUT, can also be an outbreak of an endemic disease that threatens to become national significance or causes serious loss of market access.
2
Q
Organisations involved
A
DPI
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) - French origins
3
Q
Why are emergency diseases important?
A
Even tho it may have little significance to individual animal -> MAJOR significance to enterprise/business/industry/nation (population)…
