Intro to Zoonoses
These are diseases that can be spread among animals and between animals and people.
What is Zoonoses?
This route of transmission involves the spread of pathogens through contact with an infected animal’s tissues or fluids via open wounds or mucous membranes.
This term describes a series of practices designed to prevent the introduction and spread of pathogens.
What are Biosecurity Basics?
Avian influenza is commonly known by this two-word name.
What is Bird Flu?
This approach recognizes that the health of humans is connected to the health of animals and the environment.
What is One Health?
This term refers to a disease that is regularly found among a particular population or in a certain area.
What is Endemic Disease?
These are inanimate objects or surfaces, such as equipment or clothing, that may become contaminated with pathogens.
What are Fomites?
To prevent disease spread after a fair, animals should be quarantined for this many days once they return home.
What is 7 days?
This is the primary route by which H3N2v spreads from pigs to humans.
What is aerosol droplets?
This national agency is responsible for protecting Americans from pandemics and investigating health problems.
What is the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)?
This percentage of emerging pathogens in humans are zoonotic diseases.
What is 75%?
This route occurs when an arthropod, like a tick or mosquito, transfers a pathogen from an infected animal to a human.
What are Vectors?
Biosecurity at Exhibitions include working with a veterinarian to ensure your animals include these two things
What are vaccinations and parasite control?
True or False: Humans can get avian influenza by eating properly cooked poultry products.
What is false?
This state-level official is responsible for protecting the livestock industry and enforcing rules on the control of animal diseases.
What is State Veterinarian?
List three of the five groups of people who are at an increased risk of developing severe complications if infected with a zoonotic disease.
What is
Children less than 5 years of age
Pregnant women
People with weakened immune systems
Providing fresh air to animals and decreasing humidity in barns helps prevent this specific route of transmission.
What is Aerosol/Droplet?
These specific areas at an exhibition facility are designed to be a buffer between animal areas and non-animal areas.
What are transition areas?
Besides pigs, list two other animal species that can be commonly affected by influenza A viruses of swine origin.
What are turkeys and minks?
This career involves recognizing disease outbreaks in both animals and people, and sharing findings with human and animal health officials.
What is Veterinarian?
Known as "club lamb fungus," this disease causes hair loss, scaling, and a ring-shaped rash in people.
What is ringworm?
Identify the three components that make up the "Epidemiologic Triangle" used to understand how disease is transmitted.
What is Agent, Environment and Host?
When sharing equipment between farms, name the four steps (in order) required to ensure it is safe to use again.
What is all manure and bedding removed, equipment cleaned and disinfected, and then rinsed when returned to farm?
List three clinical signs of avian influenza in domestic poultry.
What is Ruffled feathers, Lack of appetite, Watery diarrhea?
This state professional coordinates vector control for diseases spread by insects and provides recommendations regarding rabies exposures.
What is a State Public Health Veterinarian?