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Manual on the preparation of national animal disease emergency preparedness plans
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The article was published on 1999-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emergency management.read more
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African swine fever in wild boar.
Simon J. More,Miguel Angel Miranda,Dominique Bicout,Anette Bøtner,Andrew Butterworth,Paolo Calistri,Sandra Edwards,Bruno Garin-Bastuji,Margaret Good,Virginie Michel,Mohan Raj,Søren Saxmose Nielsen,Liisa Sihvonen,Hans Spoolder,Jan Arend Stegeman,Antonio Velarde,Preben Willeberg,Christoph Winckler,Klaus Depner,Vittorio Guberti,Marius Masiulis,Edvins Olsevskis,Petr Satran,Mihaela Spiridon,Hans-Hermann Thulke,Arvo Vilrop,Grzegorz Wozniakowski,Andrea Bau,Alessandro Broglia,José Cortiñas Abrahantes,Sofie Dhollander,Andrey Gogin,Irene Muñoz Gajardo,Frank Verdonck,Laura Amato,Christian Gortázar Schmidt +35 more
TL;DR: Preventive measures to reduce and stabilise wild boar density, before ASF introduction, will be beneficial both in reducing the probability of exposure of the population to ASF and the efforts needed for potential emergency actions if an ASF incursion were to occur.
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Surveillance, detection and response: managing emerging diseases at national and international levels.
TL;DR: The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) as mentioned in this paper is a system developed jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the World Health Organization.
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Disease awareness, information retrieval and change in biosecurity routines among pig farmers in association with the first PRRS outbreak in Sweden
Maria Nöremark,Maria Nöremark,Ann Lindberg,Ivar Vågsholm,Ivar Vågsholm,Susanna Sternberg Lewerin +5 more
TL;DR: The findings indicate that written information which was sent to all farmers was not sufficient and herd size, as an indicator for the type of farmer, was significantly associated with awareness, which could be useful when planning information campaigns during future outbreaks and when modelling disease outbreaks.
Quality assurance for animal feed analysis laboratories
J. Balthrop,B. Brand,R.A. Cowie,J. Danier,J.L. de Boever,L.H. de Jonge,Felicity Jackson,H.P.S. Makkar,C. Piotrowski +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive account of good laboratory practices, quality assurance procedures and examples of standard operating procedures as used in individual specialist laboratories is given, which will assist laboratories in acquiring the recognition of competence required for certification or accreditation and will also enhance the quality of the data reported by feed analysis laboratories.
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Is livestock research unproductive? Separating health maintenance from improvement research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that taking the negative effect of diseases into account considerably increases the returns to the livestock research of the South African Agricultural Research Council (SAARC), and that livestock research is productive, once it is properly decomposed.