Title: Describe the importance of biosecurity measures.
Course: Introduction to Animal Systems (8008) > Section: Managing Animal Health

Description should include

- defining biosecurity
- identifying the types of methods
- identifying biosecurity measures based on species
- explaining disease traceability
- differentiating between infectious and noninfectious diseases
- defining one health approach
- following vaccination protocols and schedules
- implementing sanitation procedures
- adhering to quarantine protocols
- utilizing management methods to prevent disease transmission and to treat for diseases.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are some indications that an animal may be sick?
- What is meant by infectious disease? Noninfectious disease?
- What are communicable diseases?
- What is an animal’s first line of defense in fighting an infectious disease?
- How are fungi a disease-causing agent in animals?
- What role do phagocytes and lymphocytes play in fighting disease?
- What are antigens?
- How are diseases spread from one animal to another?
- What are two types of noninfectious diseases?
- What is preventive medicine?
- What is a vaccine? How does it work?
- What is immunity?
- What is a serum?
- How can one control disease transmission?
- How does one treat a disease outbreak?