Animal Hygiene: Epidemic and infectious diseases resistance in animals

Epidemic and infectious diseases resistance in animals:

    When animal infected with any living microorganisms therefore growth and multiplicated in many body tissue and causing the disease, then excreted with body excretions like, urine, feces, saliva, tears, genital and mucous discharge, then infected another animals or contaminated whichever, in this case the animal become carrier and the first source of infection. The understanding of infectious disease resistance must cognizant of the nature and characteristics of the living microorganisms and theirs survival in vitro as well as some of microorganisms are spore forming ,therefore are more resistance than another.The principle of infectious disease resistance ,is prevention the infection and destroy the first source of infection is the diseased animal or carrier therefore must be necessity to isolate the diseased animal from healthy when spread any infected disease and prevent any contact with animals by :

1-If animal infected with worth curing disease must be isolated faraway from another healthy and contact animals in special quarantine and treated ,while if animal infected with epidemic and not worth curing like glanders in horses ,Anthrax, cattle plague, while must be destroying ailing animals and disposal of carcasses.

2-Prevent the workers or husbandman whose care the diseased animal must be not care the healthy (if there are more worker) while if there are decrease in number of worker, whose  must be firstly care the healthy animal then the diseased animals and must be done the different disinfection procedure to hands and cloths ,hence care healthy animals.

3-Specification must be done to animals about special equipment's (tools) and prevent using grooming and cleaning tools of diseased animals to healthy animals.

4-Weatering diseased animal with special dishes and prevent weatering diseased animal from the common weatering container ,whose the healthy animals weatering.

 

5-When animals exposed or infected with epidemic diseases, highly spreading like F.M.D, Sheep pox or Newcastle, must be prevent the healthy animals to pass in pasture that in which diseased animals grassing, and prevent the husbandman or workers to care healthy and diseased animals at same time after disinfection their hands and cloths.

6- Prevent the pollution of reservoirs of water and feed with living microorganisms, that which one of an important ways to prevent the spread of infection between animals.

7-Spray animals and yards with insecticide to destroy the insect and ectoparasite like flies and ticks.

8- The new animals that be added to flock must be considered as diseased and susceptible animals and must be isolated and inspected for two weeks especially when that added from epidemic areas.