Emergency Animal Diseases 1

• VETS50007
• Contact Hours: Approximately 10-14 hours per week over an 8-week period
  Total Time Commitment: Approximately 112 hours per semester
• 12.50

This subject focuses on highly contagious livestock epidemics. Several diseases of domestic mammals are recognised to be of particular importance, due especially to high rates of transmission and/or morbidity and mortality. These include the “vesicular diseases”: foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Vesicular Stomatitis (VS), and Swine Vesicular Disease (SVD), and two serious diseases of swine: classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF). These diseases have been responsible for two of the most serious animal disease emergencies in recent time, viz. the CSF epidemic in the Netherlands in 1997-98 and the FMD epidemic in the UK in 2001. This module will use online lecture notes and... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: The following subjects are prerequisites: Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: VETS50003 Selection & Interpretation of Lab Tests June 12.50 VETS50004 Communication in Disease Emergencies August 12.50 VETS50005 Management in Disease Em