Vocabulary
The measures and management practices used to prevent, control, or stop the spread of harmful biological agents like viruses, bacteria, pests, and invasive species
What is Biosecurity?
Phones should stay off and away while working with animals because
we can get distracted and the animal can get hurt or die
Gloves
What is a disease that humans have to potential of contracting at a petting zoo?
Rabies
Or any other disease allowed by teacher
name a disease we talked about when we filled in our disease chart
at teachers discretion
Any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism that disrupts its vital bodily processes
What is Disease?
The very first step to cleaning an animals enclosure
What is gathering all of your required materials and PPE.
A common piece of PPE we use in class
Closed toes shoes
Calf hutches
Milking parlor
Quarantine pens
Feed and water troughs
The surgical examination and dissection of a dead body, most commonly an animal to discover the cause of death
The process or system of keeping places clean and healthy by removing waste, trash, and sewage to prevent disease
What is Sanitation
Our reptiles need regular baths because?
To help them with shedding and/or to pass bowel movements
Name something we can do to improve the biosecurity with our chickens outside
Up to teachers discretion
What is the responsibility of a biosecurity facility manager?
What is a disease that might impact a meat farm?
Salmonella
Brucellosis
Foot-and-mouth disease
An infectious illness that spreads naturally from animals to humans
What is zoonotic disease?
How should you NOT approach our animals in their cages
Loud/excited
With food
Dirty hands from touching another animal
Name something we can do to improve our biosecurity practices with our animals inside
at teachers discretion
What is the responsibility of a disease specialist in an animal facility?
To know about disease that might impact their specific facility, know their symptoms and signs, how to treat and prevent them from occuring
Parvovirus
MRSA
Bordetella
Any tiny organism or agent, such as a bacterium or virus, that can cause disease in a host
What is Pathogen?
What is the last thing you need to do after cleaning an animals cage?
What is closing the door and checking that is locked.
When we got our hedgehog, we did what to him?
What is the responsibility of a disinefection and PPE specialist
Determine what cleansers are needed, how to use them and what PPE staff and visitors need to be wearing/using
The amount of time a disinfectant must stay visibly wet on a surface to safely kill or inactive target germs
What is contact time