Animal Health

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Animal Health

• Topic 3054
• Ms. Blakeley

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What Causes Disease?

• ________ bacteria, viruses, protozoa
• _____________ worms, insects
• Infestations external parasites
• Infectious internal disease
• Injury handling, facilities
• Inherited _______
• __________________ easiest to correct
• toxic materials in plants, nitrogen content
• chemicals for insect control

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Disease

• ____________ Disease spread by contact
• Confinement Systems disease easily spread
• Animal Waste _______ for germs
• Soil Born Disease live in soil
• hog diseases
• anthrax bury animals deep
• cover with lime or burn
• feline distemper
• do NOT drag dead animals
• alternate pastures

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Disease

• From water feed chemical residues, waste
• From air germs, chemicals, mosquitoes host
  disease
• Diseases divided according to how _______ they
  progress
• ________ rapid progression (cholera,
  bloat, mastitis) all generally have a rapid
  increase in body temperature
• _________ last a long time (cancer),
  costly to fight
• Some are ____________ mastitis, pink eye

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Vital Signs

• ________ high under left fore flank or over
  jawbone
• _____________ rate of breathing
• ______________ most reliable constant
• taken rectally
• rise of 3 deg F is considered serious
• Symptoms not eat, isolate self, lack alertness,
  mucous discharge, droopy, lowered head, swelling,
  bleeding, abnormal bowel movements, worms in
  feces, unusual walk, abnormal behavior

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Disease Prevention

• _____________ most important
• Vaccination build up _____________ to fight
  disease
• Some diseases (tetanus) animals cant be saved
  once they show signs
• separate from herd
• humanely kill and dispose of

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Parasite Control

• Some parasites may be passed to humans
• trichina, bladder worms
• Worming usually done in _________
• ____________ apply manually or cattle rub
• Tick Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in humans
• Sanitation ________ waste, __________ floors
  walls, remove dead animals, insect rodent
  control, repair equipment, proper bedding
• Hog house ________________ disinfect
• Pile manure to kill germs (heat)

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