What are the 4 goals of medicine?
Promote health
Preserve health
Restore health
Minimize suffering
What are the 4 levels of disease prevention?
Primordial
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Formulating a nutrition plan for cats to avoid obesity and decrease risk of feline hepatic lipidosis is what level of disease prevention?
Primordial: inhibit risk factors
Vaccination, border security, and quarantine of animals before allowing them to enter the herd in order to prevent occurrence of a disease is what level of disease prevention?
Primary: avoid disease occurrence
Routinely sampling cattle herds to detect bluetongue and vaccinate, or testing hens for salmonellosis and removing positive animals is what level of disease prevention?
Secondary: detect and treat ASAP
Management of a diabetic cat, mastitis control in a dairy farm, and pasture turn to control parasite load are under what level of disease prevention?
Tertiary: soften impact of ongoing disease, slowing progression, reducing severity
Prevention of a disease involves:
Reducing the risk or threats of disease in an area, herd, or individual
Control of infectious diseases involves:
Steps taken to reduce a disease problem to a tolerable level and maintain at that level
Eliminating a disease means it is eliminated from a _______.
Population
Eradicating a disease means it is eradicated permanently, ________.
Worldwide
What are the only 2 diseases to be actually eradicated?
Rinderpest
Smallpox
T/F: The latent and infectious periods overlap?
FALSE
Incubation and Infectious periods overlap
What are the 3 ways to prevent disease?
Reservoir neutralization
Reducing contact
Increasing host resistance
Reservoir neutralization by removing affected individuals can be accomplished in what ways?
Test and slaughter
Mass therapy
Reservoir neutralization by rendering infected individuals non shedders can be accomplished by:
vaccination
Reservoir neutralization by treating the environment can be done by:
Building toilets
Controlling vectors
What is an example of reducing contact by quarantine or treatment of infected/potentially infected.
Parvo cases
Reducing contact via population control can be accomplished by:
Leash laws to reduce fecal contamination.
Rabies control by keeping a stable vaccinated population.
How can we prevent disease by increasing host resistance?
Genetic selection
Welfare improvement
Chemoprophylaxis (abx in food)
Vaccination
What are the 5 components of National Disease Control?
Animal health law and regulations
Disease control management agency
Veterinary/Inspection services
Laboratory services
Surveillance, info, education, communication and training
WTO and OIE, and nationally, The Animal Health Act and animal quarantine laws, fall under what component of disease control?
Animal health laws and regulations
USDA-APHIS protecting the health of agriculture falls under what component of disease control?
Disease control management agencies
AND
Veterinary/inspection services
What are the US reference laboratories?
National Animal Health Laboratory Network
Different states have different labs for certain diseases
The Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health, The National Animal Health and Monitoring System, and The National Centers for Animal Health Emergency Management and Animal Health Programs in MD are part of what component of National Disease Control?
Information, Education, Communication, and Training
