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Economic dimensions and directions of animal disease policy

Widely publicised incidents of transboundary animal diseases (TADs), devastating to local livestock industries, have occurred worldwide creating a greater awareness of the role of response policy selection on TAD spread risk and risk of initial introduction into previously disease free areas. In particular, drawing on past TAD outbreaks, the literature and the intrinsic characteristics of the ...

Jan. 1, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Risk assessment and management of animal disease-related biosecurity

Animal agriculture is vulnerable to both intentional and unintentional biological threats. Outbreaks, especially intentional attacks, could cause enormous consequences extending well beyond agriculture. Nations, including the USA, are consolidating and coordinating efforts to protect against these biological threats. The efforts employed largely fall into the categories of ex ante ...

May 26, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Common Sheep Diseases

Sometimes, no matter what special precautions and preventative measures we take, we get sick. The food we eat, the lack of quality sleep we get, even the emotional stress we carry around with us—it all adds up. It’s just a fact of life: Sometimes, we get sick. And it’s no different for our animals, including a farmer’s sheep. But as many of your sheep that do get ...

Oct. 24, 2016

By Lakeland Group

Image-based measurement of alveoli volume expansion in an animal model of a diseased lung

This research aims to improve ventilation protocols in critical care by using appropriate computer models that take into account the essential lung mechanics. This paper automatically tracks the boundary of individual or groups of alveoli, and converts this into a pressure volume curve for three different types of alveoli. Schiller et al. investigate the inflation and deflation of alveoli in a ...

Aug. 18, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Animal & Agricultural Incinerators

Animal incinerators have a wide range of applications in businesses requiring carcass disposal and can be an effective bio-security measure for poultry, pig and sheep farms as well as ...

Apr. 28, 2016

By Inciner8 Limited

The dangers of Mad Cow Disease!

The dangers of Mad Cow Disease! ...

Oct. 18, 2018

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

Using Compost To Control Plant Diseases

Losses due to soilborne diseases on some greenhouse, nursery and vegetable crops can amount to thousands of dollars per acre annually. Until the 1930s, organic amendments — consisting of animal and green manures, coupled with crop rotation — were principal methods of control. But these approaches were largely abandoned for reasons of cost and inconvenience after commercial fertilizers and the ...

Dec. 31, 1998

By BioCycle Magazine

Newcastle Disease in Poultry - Coming to the UK?

This month the risk for incursion of Newcastle Disease in the UK has been raised to Medium due to two new outbreaks in Belgium, reported at commercial poultry premises. This disease can be serious for poultry and leads to fatalities within 24 hours of ...

Jul. 26, 2018

By Inciner8 Limited

Catastrophic cost of Foot and Mouth Disease

Foot and Mouth disease has never completely disappeared. Although it has been almost 20 years since the last major outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in the UK, which cost the industry more than £8 Billion, it does not mean that the disease is not still a very real risk to the economy. ...

Aug. 22, 2018

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

Fungal diseases are on the rise. Is environmental change to blame?

Scientists and physicians are looking for clues to a worrying increase in fungal infections and exploring ways to reduce the threat. ...

Apr. 25, 2017

By Ensia

Parallels in fungal pathogenesis on plant and animal hosts

Fungi are important pathogens of plants and cause more significant yield losses than bacteria or viruses. However, bacteria and viruses are more important than fungi as pathogens of animals; indeed, whether or not a fungus even becomes pathogenic on an animal often depends on the immune status of the host. Until the rapid rise of opportunistic fungal infections in humans, pathogenicity mechanisms ...

Nov. 30, 2006

By American Society for Microbiology

Parallels in fungal pathogenesis on plant and animal hosts

Fungi are important pathogens of plants and cause more significant yield losses than bacteria or viruses. However, bacteria and viruses are more important than fungi as pathogens of animals; indeed, whether or not a fungus even becomes pathogenic on an animal often depends on the immune status of the host. Until the rapid rise of opportunistic ...

Nov. 30, 2006

By American Society for Microbiology

UK report into security at Pirbright following foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

Following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Surrey on 3 August, the government asked the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to lead an investigation into biosecurity issues at the Pirbright facility – a site occupied by the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) and also by two private companies called Merial Animal Health Ltd (Merial) and Stabilitech Ltd (Stabilitech). The ...

Dec. 19, 2007

By Health and Safety Executive (UK)

Butchers beef up their animal incinerator capacity

They were so pleased with their last one that they have come back to us again. After reading this headline you may be wondering just why on earth a butcher would need an animal incinerator, but in fact the answer is rather simple and when this particular butcher decided that it was time to invest in a new model they had no hesitation whatsoever in coming back to us. Our ...

May 17, 2017

By Matthews Environmental Solutions Ltd.

A biosecure composting system for disposal of cattle carcasses and manure following infectious disease outbreak

Received for publication April 11, 2008. During outbreaks of infectious animal diseases, composting may be an effective method of disposing of mortalities and potentially contaminated manure. Duplicate biosecure structures containing 16 cattle (Bos taurus) mortalities (343 kg average weight) were constructed with carcasses placed on a 40-cm straw layer and overlaid with 160 cm of feedlot manure. ...

Feb. 28, 2009

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Arachidonic acid and fatty acid profiles as indicators of contamination from the leachates of animal carcasses

Because many livestock with avian influenza and foot and mouth disease have been disposed of at landfills, underground water contamination is a big problem for people living near these landfills as well as burial sites. Biological oxygen demand (BOD), NH4, total dissolved solids (TDS), chloride and potassium have been used as markers of contamination from the leachates of animal carcasses. ...

Apr. 12, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Electrochemical oxidation of tetracycline antibiotics using a Ti/IrO2 anode for wastewater treatment of animal husbandry

In animal husbandry, antibiotics are widely used to treat and prevent diseases or to promote growth. The use of antibiotics for domestic animals enables to promote safety of livestock products and enhance productivity. Tetracycline antibiotics (TCs) are one of the primarily used groups of antibiotics for cattle and swine. However, the unintentional spreading of antibiotics from animal waste to ...

Dec. 31, 2010

By IWA Publishing

The influence of biowaste and garden waste composts on diseases caused by pythium ultimum and rhizoctonia Solani related to the antagonists trichoderma hamatum and flavobacterium balustinum

Soilborne plant pathogens can cause serious losses on both agricultural and horticultural crops. Examples include damping-off diseases caused by Pythium spp. and Rhizoctonia spp., Pythium and Phytophthora root rots, Rhizoctonia crown rot, Fusarium and Verticillium wilts, nematode and even bacterial diseases. Until the fifties, the principal methods to control soilborne diseases were through the ...

Jan. 1, 1999

By ORBIT e.V.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties) recommendations for bovine spongiform encephalopathy risk management and its use by member countries

The World Organisation for Animal Health (formerly the Office of International Epizootics, or OIE) provides inter-governmental guidance on animal health issues. The OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code contains standards and recommendations to prevent import of infectious pathogens during trade of animal products. The OIE designed recommendations for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to ...

Oct. 10, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Chemical composition and mammary cancer inhibitory activity of dry bean

The global economic burden caused by chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer is enormous. Little information exists about the role that specific crops in the diet play to reduce these diseases. To address this question, the phenolic and flavonoid contents, oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC), and anticancer activity of six market classes of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ...

Jan. 27, 2009

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

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