Animal Health Management: High Impact and Emerging Diseases

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4 ECTS-credits
English

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This module will introduce you to the reasons why animal health needs to be managed, the beneficiaries of animal health management, the concepts of what constitutes a high impact disease or an emerging disease with examples, and the basic principles and tools available for managing both high impact and emerging diseases, with an emphasis on the wildlife/livestock/human interface.

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Discuss the reasons for managing animal health and be able to describe the benefits of good animal health management and the beneficiaries.
Identify and analyse the issues that influence animal health management relating to both the animals and the diseases involved.
Demonstrate knowledge about the roles of the various actors in animal health management and the key tools and skills available for managing animal health.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of what constitutes a high impact disease and be able to define high impact diseases in terms of the criteria for compulsory notification to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Describe and critically evaluate recommended approaches to the management of high impact diseases.
Propose and defend strategies for managing high impact disease under different conditions keeping in mind the One Health principles of protecting the health of humans, animals and the ecosystem.
Define and critically evaluate emerging diseases and to understand and describe the drivers of disease emergence.
Describe and analyse the tools that can be used to enable early recognition and diagnosis of emerging diseases.
Discuss and critically evaluate recommended approaches to the management of emerging diseases.