The presentation details different methods and terminologies used in disease management. It briefs about different types of disease control programs run at global, regional, and national levels. It also tells about the success and failure of different disease control programs. The presentation also briefed about methods of disease control.
local names, definition, etiology,epidemiology lifecycle, pathogenesis, clinical findings, necropsy finding, diagnosis,treatment, control and prevention
This document discusses various animal diseases including bacterial, viral, parasitic, and non-infectious diseases. It describes how diseases are spread, the body's immune response to fight off pathogens, and methods to prevent disease such as vaccination, quarantine, and selective breeding practices. Key points covered include the types of bacteria and viruses that cause illness, how antibodies are produced during active and passive immunity, pioneers in vaccine development like Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur, and common diseases stemming from nutritional deficiencies or toxins.
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by the lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) which affects cattle and water buffalo. It is characterized by fever, skin nodules, swollen lymph nodes, and reduced milk production. Transmission occurs through arthropod vectors like mosquitoes and flies. Diagnosis involves collecting blood, skin samples, or semen from infected animals showing symptoms like nodules and fever. Treatment focuses on isolation, supportive care, and prevention of secondary infections. Controlling vectors and movement of animals from infected areas are important for prevention along with vaccination of healthy animals near outbreak sites.
Lumpy skin disease is a pox viral disease of cattle characterized by fever, skin nodules, and lesions in the mouth and respiratory tract. It can infect up to 45% of cattle in a herd and cause mortality of up to 10% as well as reduced milk production and fertility. The disease is transmitted by biting flies and can also spread through milk, saliva, and shared water sources. There is no treatment for lumpy skin disease. Vaccination is the best form of prevention and should be given annually to all cattle, especially before wet summer months when flies are more prevalent.
Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals like cattle, pigs, sheep and goats. It is caused by an aphthovirus from the family Picornaviridae. The virus can be transmitted between animals through direct contact or contact with contaminated materials. Clinical signs include blisters and sores in the mouth and on the feet. Young animals are more susceptible to death from myocarditis. Farmers are advised to promptly isolate and report suspected cases of foot and mouth disease to prevent its spread.
The document discusses various approaches for the prevention, control, and eradication of zoonotic diseases. It begins by explaining that the key concept is breaking the chain of transmission by controlling animal reservoirs, transmission routes, and immunizing susceptible hosts. It then defines and provides examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in animals. Control strategies aim to reduce illness prevalence by targeting epidemiologically weak links. Eradication aims to permanently eliminate an infectious agent from a defined population. Methods discussed include quarantine, testing and slaughter, vaccination, vector control, reservoir control, early diagnosis, and improving hygiene and the environment. Factors important for disease control programs include veterinary infrastructure, diagnostic feasibility, surveillance, cooperation, and availability
Bovine tuberculosis epidemiology & control in indiaBhoj Raj Singh
Tuberculosis in India is in hyperendemic state both in human and animals. No DOTS can help in control of human tuberculosis unless tuberculosis is controlled in animals. Control of tuberculosis in animals is a far reacheachable dream in India and thus the Tuberculosis will persist in India till the dooms day.
local names, definition, etiology,epidemiology lifecycle, pathogenesis, clinical findings, necropsy finding, diagnosis,treatment, control and prevention
This document discusses various animal diseases including bacterial, viral, parasitic, and non-infectious diseases. It describes how diseases are spread, the body's immune response to fight off pathogens, and methods to prevent disease such as vaccination, quarantine, and selective breeding practices. Key points covered include the types of bacteria and viruses that cause illness, how antibodies are produced during active and passive immunity, pioneers in vaccine development like Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur, and common diseases stemming from nutritional deficiencies or toxins.
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by the lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) which affects cattle and water buffalo. It is characterized by fever, skin nodules, swollen lymph nodes, and reduced milk production. Transmission occurs through arthropod vectors like mosquitoes and flies. Diagnosis involves collecting blood, skin samples, or semen from infected animals showing symptoms like nodules and fever. Treatment focuses on isolation, supportive care, and prevention of secondary infections. Controlling vectors and movement of animals from infected areas are important for prevention along with vaccination of healthy animals near outbreak sites.
Lumpy skin disease is a pox viral disease of cattle characterized by fever, skin nodules, and lesions in the mouth and respiratory tract. It can infect up to 45% of cattle in a herd and cause mortality of up to 10% as well as reduced milk production and fertility. The disease is transmitted by biting flies and can also spread through milk, saliva, and shared water sources. There is no treatment for lumpy skin disease. Vaccination is the best form of prevention and should be given annually to all cattle, especially before wet summer months when flies are more prevalent.
Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals like cattle, pigs, sheep and goats. It is caused by an aphthovirus from the family Picornaviridae. The virus can be transmitted between animals through direct contact or contact with contaminated materials. Clinical signs include blisters and sores in the mouth and on the feet. Young animals are more susceptible to death from myocarditis. Farmers are advised to promptly isolate and report suspected cases of foot and mouth disease to prevent its spread.
The document discusses various approaches for the prevention, control, and eradication of zoonotic diseases. It begins by explaining that the key concept is breaking the chain of transmission by controlling animal reservoirs, transmission routes, and immunizing susceptible hosts. It then defines and provides examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in animals. Control strategies aim to reduce illness prevalence by targeting epidemiologically weak links. Eradication aims to permanently eliminate an infectious agent from a defined population. Methods discussed include quarantine, testing and slaughter, vaccination, vector control, reservoir control, early diagnosis, and improving hygiene and the environment. Factors important for disease control programs include veterinary infrastructure, diagnostic feasibility, surveillance, cooperation, and availability
Bovine tuberculosis epidemiology & control in indiaBhoj Raj Singh
Tuberculosis in India is in hyperendemic state both in human and animals. No DOTS can help in control of human tuberculosis unless tuberculosis is controlled in animals. Control of tuberculosis in animals is a far reacheachable dream in India and thus the Tuberculosis will persist in India till the dooms day.
This document summarizes information about bovine tuberculosis, a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. It primarily affects cattle but can infect many other species. Humans can contract it through ingesting unpasteurized dairy or inhaling infected aerosols. Control relies on test and slaughter programs along with pasteurization. Outbreaks in wildlife pose challenges. While treatable in humans, it remains an occupational hazard for farmers and abattoir workers in areas where bovine tuberculosis is endemic.
Newcastle disease is a contagious viral disease of birds caused by avian paramyxovirus-1. It affects many species of birds and can cause severe economic losses in poultry. The virus is transmitted through direct contact and contaminated feces, water, or feed. Clinical signs vary depending on the strain but may include respiratory disease, neurological signs, and diarrhea. Diagnosis involves virus isolation from samples. Control relies on quarantine, vaccination, and culling infected flocks to prevent spread. Proper cleaning and disinfection of affected premises is important for eradication.
Livestock diseases cause billions in losses annually in the US. Three main causes of disease spread are poor sanitation, improper management, and introducing new animals. Diseases can be caused by nutritional defects, physiological defects, morphological defects, or pathogenic organisms like viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Good management practices like isolation of new animals, vaccination programs, clean facilities, adequate rations, limiting visitors, quick diagnosis, and proper handling can help prevent disease spread. Common diseases are described along with their causes, symptoms, and prevention/treatment methods.
Brucellosis: Epidemiology and Control in indiaBhoj Raj Singh
This document summarizes information about bovine brucellosis, including its causative agent, transmission, clinical signs, epidemiology, diagnosis, and control programs in India. It discusses that B. abortus is the primary cause of bovine brucellosis. Seroprevalence studies in India show varied rates of infection across states, with some states reporting over 40% seropositivity. National control programs aim to reduce the disease impact through biannual screening, vaccination of female calves, and bull castration. However, effective control remains challenging due to issues like lack of disposal plans, limited vaccination coverage, and involvement of multiple animal hosts. Improved vaccines, diagnostics, and eradication strategies are still
Coccidiosis is a parasitic disease of the intestinal tract caused by coccidian protozoa. It spreads through contact with infected feces and causes diarrhea. While most infected animals are asymptomatic, young or immunocompromised animals can suffer severe symptoms and death. The disease is common in confined poultry operations where oocysts contaminate the environment. Several species of Eimeria cause distinct lesions in different parts of the intestines. Clinical signs range from reduced growth to high mortality. Treatment involves anticoccidial drugs while control relies on sanitation, anticoccidial medication in feed, and separating birds from droppings.
This document discusses different enteric diseases that can cause diarrhea in pigs, including swine dysentery caused by Serpulina hyodysenteriae, salmonellosis caused by various Salmonella bacteria strains, porcine proliferative enteropathy caused by Lawsonia intracellularis, and E. coli diarrhea in piglets. Clinical signs, transmission, prevention, and treatment methods are described for each disease. The document also covers reproductive diseases such as porcine parvovirus, brucellosis, and leptospirosis, as well as respiratory diseases including streptococcal arthritis and PRRS. Control of diarrhea in piglets focuses on vaccination of sows, improving colostrum intake in pig
This document provides information on important poultry diseases, including infectious respiratory diseases like avian influenza, infectious bronchitis, and infectious laryngotracheitis. It also covers neoplastic, viral, bacterial, parasitic, deficiency, and food safety diseases. For each disease, it discusses the cause, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control methods. The document is intended to give poultry managers a basic understanding of common poultry health issues.
Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in India Epidemiology and ControlBhoj Raj Singh
PPR is endemic in India in sheep & goats. Mainly young stocks are more affected. Disease occurs throughout the year but more common in October & March. Though vaccination is the only method for control & eradication, even the institutes those developed the effective vaccine in India to control the disease fear to use it because many a time outbreaks ensue on vaccination. The other important reason for persistence of disease is undeclared Policy of suppressed reporting of PPR outbreaks.
The document discusses various strategies for animal disease control including prevention, vaccination, biosecurity measures, surveillance, zoning/compartmentalization, and stamping out. It emphasizes applying the appropriate strategy based on factors like the disease, its impacts, stakeholders involved, and available resources. The overall goal is to reduce disease prevalence and impacts in a cost-effective manner.
This document provides information about Marek's Disease, including:
1) It is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens caused by the Marek's Disease Virus (MDV), a herpesvirus. MDV has three serotypes, with Serotype 1 including the oncogenic strains responsible for Marek's Disease.
2) The virus spreads via dander from infected feather follicles through the air. It causes proliferation of lymphocytes which can deposit in various tissues, leading to neural, visceral, cutaneous or ocular forms of the disease.
3) Clinical signs include paralysis, enlarged organs, skin nodules or eye protrusion. Diagnosis involves post-mortem
This document summarizes common diseases that affect camels, including respiratory, digestive, urinary, and skin diseases. It describes camel myiasis, a chronic rhinitis caused by fly larvae. Pneumonia in camels can be caused by viruses, bacteria like Pasteurella, or parasites. Indigestion and bloat are discussed as digestive issues. Urolithiasis, the formation of bladder stones, can occur when camels ingest too much silica. Parasitic dermatitis like mange and mycotic dermatitis/ringworm are also summarized, outlining their causes, signs, diagnosis, and treatments.
Animal Disease Control Programs in India.pptBhoj Raj Singh
India is a hyperendemic country for many animal diseases and zoonotic diseases. Every year billions of rupees are spent on disease control, surveillance, monitoring, and vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases. However, due to the failure of most animal disease control programs for one or other reasons India directly losses about 20 and 25 thousand crores annually due to endemicity of FMD & brucellosis, respectively. The presentation describes the pros and cons of different ongoing disease control programs going on in India.
This document provides a detailed classification of zoonoses, or diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, based on several factors. It describes classifications based on the nature of reservoirs, epidemiological features like life cycle and transmission mode, the animals involved like wild, pet or lab animals, physical conditions like urban vs. rural, transmission types like food-borne or vector-borne, the type of pathogen such as viral, bacterial, parasitic, and more. Many examples are given for each classification category to illustrate the different types of zoonotic diseases.
1) Johne's disease, also known as paratuberculosis, is a chronic, infectious disease of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis.
2) It is characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss. Young calves are most susceptible to infection through ingestion of contaminated feces or milk.
3) The disease has a long incubation period, usually 2-5 years, before clinical signs appear. It causes thickening of the intestinal wall and infiltration of the intestine by macrophages containing acid-fast bacilli.
There are hundreds of diseases of livestock and pet animals that can be printed through properly used quality vaccines. This presentation summarises different types of vaccines used by veterinarians to control/ prevent diseases. The presentation enlists the vaccine-preventable diseases of pets and livestock, and also the different vaccines used.
Etiology, local names, definition, transmission, source of infection, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment prevention and control
Common cattle diseases by Dr.Pavulraj.S, M.V.Sc., Pathology scholar, IVRI (NR...Pavulraj Selvaraj
important bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases of cattle with good quality images for veterinarians in filed and college as well for better diagnosis of diseases in quick review form in presentation mode
Ongoing disease control programmes in indiaBhoj Raj Singh
Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries sectors play an important role in the national economy and in the socio-economic development of the country. Livestock sector alone contributes 4.11% towards overall National GDP and 25.6% of total Agriculture GDP. The biggest impediment to growth of this sector, however, is the large-scale prevalence of diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Hemorrhagic Septicemia (HS), Brucellosis, Black Quarter (BQ) in cattle, Enterotoxaemia, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) & Sheep-Goat Pox in sheep and goats and Swine Fever in pigs, which drastically affect the productivity of animals. The presence of this disease not only deters the domestic economy but also foreign investment in the livestock sector. Although India have been free from disease like Rinderpest, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), presence of other economically important disease still threaten the very roots of livestock sector. This presentation describes various control programs that have been introduced by the Government of India, nationwide for controlling the infectious diseases of animals that have been or should be targeted for eradication or elimination, direct and indirect benefits from control programs, drawback issues and opportunities for the future.
The Role of the Veterinarian in One Health ProgramDr. Fakhar
Today’s veterinarians are the only doctors educated to protect the health of both animals and people. They work hard to address the health and needs of every species of animal and they also play a critical role in environmental protection, food safety, animal welfare and public health.
Presented By:
Dr. Fakhar-e-Alam Kulyar
DVM, M.Phil CMS
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Contact: fakharealam786@hotmail.com
Past and future of eradication and elimination of different diseases. How to plan for elimination and eradication. What are the diseases can be eliminated? OPV to IPV shift!
This document discusses disease eradication programs past, present, and future. It defines eradication as the complete removal of a disease from the world versus elimination which is removal from a region. Criteria for selecting diseases for eradication include having no animal reservoir and availability of an effective intervention like a vaccine. Successful eradication programs for smallpox and rinderpest are described. Ongoing programs targeting polio, yaws, dracunculiasis, and malaria are outlined. Challenges and opportunities for measles eradication are also discussed.
This document summarizes information about bovine tuberculosis, a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. It primarily affects cattle but can infect many other species. Humans can contract it through ingesting unpasteurized dairy or inhaling infected aerosols. Control relies on test and slaughter programs along with pasteurization. Outbreaks in wildlife pose challenges. While treatable in humans, it remains an occupational hazard for farmers and abattoir workers in areas where bovine tuberculosis is endemic.
Newcastle disease is a contagious viral disease of birds caused by avian paramyxovirus-1. It affects many species of birds and can cause severe economic losses in poultry. The virus is transmitted through direct contact and contaminated feces, water, or feed. Clinical signs vary depending on the strain but may include respiratory disease, neurological signs, and diarrhea. Diagnosis involves virus isolation from samples. Control relies on quarantine, vaccination, and culling infected flocks to prevent spread. Proper cleaning and disinfection of affected premises is important for eradication.
Livestock diseases cause billions in losses annually in the US. Three main causes of disease spread are poor sanitation, improper management, and introducing new animals. Diseases can be caused by nutritional defects, physiological defects, morphological defects, or pathogenic organisms like viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Good management practices like isolation of new animals, vaccination programs, clean facilities, adequate rations, limiting visitors, quick diagnosis, and proper handling can help prevent disease spread. Common diseases are described along with their causes, symptoms, and prevention/treatment methods.
Brucellosis: Epidemiology and Control in indiaBhoj Raj Singh
This document summarizes information about bovine brucellosis, including its causative agent, transmission, clinical signs, epidemiology, diagnosis, and control programs in India. It discusses that B. abortus is the primary cause of bovine brucellosis. Seroprevalence studies in India show varied rates of infection across states, with some states reporting over 40% seropositivity. National control programs aim to reduce the disease impact through biannual screening, vaccination of female calves, and bull castration. However, effective control remains challenging due to issues like lack of disposal plans, limited vaccination coverage, and involvement of multiple animal hosts. Improved vaccines, diagnostics, and eradication strategies are still
Coccidiosis is a parasitic disease of the intestinal tract caused by coccidian protozoa. It spreads through contact with infected feces and causes diarrhea. While most infected animals are asymptomatic, young or immunocompromised animals can suffer severe symptoms and death. The disease is common in confined poultry operations where oocysts contaminate the environment. Several species of Eimeria cause distinct lesions in different parts of the intestines. Clinical signs range from reduced growth to high mortality. Treatment involves anticoccidial drugs while control relies on sanitation, anticoccidial medication in feed, and separating birds from droppings.
This document discusses different enteric diseases that can cause diarrhea in pigs, including swine dysentery caused by Serpulina hyodysenteriae, salmonellosis caused by various Salmonella bacteria strains, porcine proliferative enteropathy caused by Lawsonia intracellularis, and E. coli diarrhea in piglets. Clinical signs, transmission, prevention, and treatment methods are described for each disease. The document also covers reproductive diseases such as porcine parvovirus, brucellosis, and leptospirosis, as well as respiratory diseases including streptococcal arthritis and PRRS. Control of diarrhea in piglets focuses on vaccination of sows, improving colostrum intake in pig
This document provides information on important poultry diseases, including infectious respiratory diseases like avian influenza, infectious bronchitis, and infectious laryngotracheitis. It also covers neoplastic, viral, bacterial, parasitic, deficiency, and food safety diseases. For each disease, it discusses the cause, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control methods. The document is intended to give poultry managers a basic understanding of common poultry health issues.
Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in India Epidemiology and ControlBhoj Raj Singh
PPR is endemic in India in sheep & goats. Mainly young stocks are more affected. Disease occurs throughout the year but more common in October & March. Though vaccination is the only method for control & eradication, even the institutes those developed the effective vaccine in India to control the disease fear to use it because many a time outbreaks ensue on vaccination. The other important reason for persistence of disease is undeclared Policy of suppressed reporting of PPR outbreaks.
The document discusses various strategies for animal disease control including prevention, vaccination, biosecurity measures, surveillance, zoning/compartmentalization, and stamping out. It emphasizes applying the appropriate strategy based on factors like the disease, its impacts, stakeholders involved, and available resources. The overall goal is to reduce disease prevalence and impacts in a cost-effective manner.
This document provides information about Marek's Disease, including:
1) It is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens caused by the Marek's Disease Virus (MDV), a herpesvirus. MDV has three serotypes, with Serotype 1 including the oncogenic strains responsible for Marek's Disease.
2) The virus spreads via dander from infected feather follicles through the air. It causes proliferation of lymphocytes which can deposit in various tissues, leading to neural, visceral, cutaneous or ocular forms of the disease.
3) Clinical signs include paralysis, enlarged organs, skin nodules or eye protrusion. Diagnosis involves post-mortem
This document summarizes common diseases that affect camels, including respiratory, digestive, urinary, and skin diseases. It describes camel myiasis, a chronic rhinitis caused by fly larvae. Pneumonia in camels can be caused by viruses, bacteria like Pasteurella, or parasites. Indigestion and bloat are discussed as digestive issues. Urolithiasis, the formation of bladder stones, can occur when camels ingest too much silica. Parasitic dermatitis like mange and mycotic dermatitis/ringworm are also summarized, outlining their causes, signs, diagnosis, and treatments.
Animal Disease Control Programs in India.pptBhoj Raj Singh
India is a hyperendemic country for many animal diseases and zoonotic diseases. Every year billions of rupees are spent on disease control, surveillance, monitoring, and vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases. However, due to the failure of most animal disease control programs for one or other reasons India directly losses about 20 and 25 thousand crores annually due to endemicity of FMD & brucellosis, respectively. The presentation describes the pros and cons of different ongoing disease control programs going on in India.
This document provides a detailed classification of zoonoses, or diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, based on several factors. It describes classifications based on the nature of reservoirs, epidemiological features like life cycle and transmission mode, the animals involved like wild, pet or lab animals, physical conditions like urban vs. rural, transmission types like food-borne or vector-borne, the type of pathogen such as viral, bacterial, parasitic, and more. Many examples are given for each classification category to illustrate the different types of zoonotic diseases.
1) Johne's disease, also known as paratuberculosis, is a chronic, infectious disease of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis.
2) It is characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss. Young calves are most susceptible to infection through ingestion of contaminated feces or milk.
3) The disease has a long incubation period, usually 2-5 years, before clinical signs appear. It causes thickening of the intestinal wall and infiltration of the intestine by macrophages containing acid-fast bacilli.
There are hundreds of diseases of livestock and pet animals that can be printed through properly used quality vaccines. This presentation summarises different types of vaccines used by veterinarians to control/ prevent diseases. The presentation enlists the vaccine-preventable diseases of pets and livestock, and also the different vaccines used.
Etiology, local names, definition, transmission, source of infection, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment prevention and control
Common cattle diseases by Dr.Pavulraj.S, M.V.Sc., Pathology scholar, IVRI (NR...Pavulraj Selvaraj
important bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases of cattle with good quality images for veterinarians in filed and college as well for better diagnosis of diseases in quick review form in presentation mode
Ongoing disease control programmes in indiaBhoj Raj Singh
Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries sectors play an important role in the national economy and in the socio-economic development of the country. Livestock sector alone contributes 4.11% towards overall National GDP and 25.6% of total Agriculture GDP. The biggest impediment to growth of this sector, however, is the large-scale prevalence of diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Hemorrhagic Septicemia (HS), Brucellosis, Black Quarter (BQ) in cattle, Enterotoxaemia, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) & Sheep-Goat Pox in sheep and goats and Swine Fever in pigs, which drastically affect the productivity of animals. The presence of this disease not only deters the domestic economy but also foreign investment in the livestock sector. Although India have been free from disease like Rinderpest, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), presence of other economically important disease still threaten the very roots of livestock sector. This presentation describes various control programs that have been introduced by the Government of India, nationwide for controlling the infectious diseases of animals that have been or should be targeted for eradication or elimination, direct and indirect benefits from control programs, drawback issues and opportunities for the future.
The Role of the Veterinarian in One Health ProgramDr. Fakhar
Today’s veterinarians are the only doctors educated to protect the health of both animals and people. They work hard to address the health and needs of every species of animal and they also play a critical role in environmental protection, food safety, animal welfare and public health.
Presented By:
Dr. Fakhar-e-Alam Kulyar
DVM, M.Phil CMS
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Contact: fakharealam786@hotmail.com
Past and future of eradication and elimination of different diseases. How to plan for elimination and eradication. What are the diseases can be eliminated? OPV to IPV shift!
This document discusses disease eradication programs past, present, and future. It defines eradication as the complete removal of a disease from the world versus elimination which is removal from a region. Criteria for selecting diseases for eradication include having no animal reservoir and availability of an effective intervention like a vaccine. Successful eradication programs for smallpox and rinderpest are described. Ongoing programs targeting polio, yaws, dracunculiasis, and malaria are outlined. Challenges and opportunities for measles eradication are also discussed.
This document summarizes information on tuberculosis (TB), the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), and strategies for controlling TB in the Philippines. It states that TB is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is transmitted through infectious droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking, or singing. The NTP achieved global targets for TB case detection and treatment success rates. However, emerging issues like drug resistance and co-morbidities need to be addressed to prevent further transmission. The program aims to reduce variations in performance, scale up coverage of DOTS implementation, and reduce out-of-pocket expenses for quality TB services.
The document discusses disease eradication, defining it as the complete elimination of an infectious disease from the entire world. It provides criteria for determining if a disease can be eradicated, including not having an animal reservoir and having an effective intervention like a vaccine. Successful eradication programs for smallpox and rinderpest are described. Ongoing efforts targeting polio, measles and other diseases are also summarized.
This document discusses vector-borne diseases and prevention/control efforts. Over 1 billion people are infected annually by diseases spread by insects/vectors, causing over 1 million deaths. Common diseases include malaria, dengue, and others. Prevention methods include long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying, outdoor spraying, larviciding of water sources, and other insect repellents. Integrated approaches targeting multiple diseases are most effective. Increased investment is needed to scale up prevention and research new solutions.
This document provides an overview of measles, including:
- The history of measles and development of the vaccine.
- The global and regional burden of measles, highlighting high mortality rates in developing countries like India prior to widespread vaccination.
- Details on the measles virus, disease transmission and presentation, complications, diagnosis and management.
- The impact of vaccination programs on measles epidemiology, herd immunity thresholds, and challenges in eliminating transmission.
- Information on measles surveillance and control efforts in India.
The document outlines several national health programmes in India, including programs for non-communicable diseases like blindness, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. It also discusses programs for communicable diseases vectored by mosquitoes like malaria, dengue, and Japanese encephalitis. Key aspects of these programs include vector control methods, the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program which uses DOTS treatment, the National AIDS Control Program, screening and treatment of leprosy, and the National Malaria Elimination Program framework. The document also covers referral practices, isolation procedures, disease monitoring and reporting, the Universal Immunization Program, and the importance of cold chain maintenance for vaccine effectiveness.
Chikungunya is an emerging mosquito-borne viral disease that presents a growing public health threat. It was first identified in Tanzania in 1952 and causes fever and severe joint pain. The virus is transmitted between humans by Aedes mosquitoes. Recent outbreaks have affected millions of people in Asia and the Americas. While there is no vaccine or specific treatment, prevention relies on controlling mosquito populations and limiting exposure. Physicians should consider chikungunya infection when patients present with acute fever and joint pain, especially after travel to affected regions.
This document summarizes several communicable diseases and control programs in the Philippines. It discusses tuberculosis (TB), focusing on the National TB Program's DOTS strategy achieving global targets. Emerging issues like drug resistance need addressing. The National Leprosy Control Program aims to ensure MDT drug availability and prevent disabilities. Schistosomiasis and its life cycle transmission via snails in contaminated water is outlined. Filariasis caused by worm transmission through mosquitoes can cause swelling and disability. The National Filariasis Elimination Program aims to eliminate it by 2017. Malaria transmitted by mosquitoes and its various causative agents are also summarized.
The document provides information on various topics related to veterinary science and disease control for UPSC CSE exams. It discusses herd immunity and how vaccinating a high percentage of animals can protect the unvaccinated. It defines disease-free zones and explains their importance for international trade. The zero disease concept and chemoprophylaxis are also summarized. Methods for disease surveillance and control in poultry are outlined, including vaccination, parasite control, and separating flocks by age.
1. The document discusses microbial threats to health in the United States from both natural and manmade sources.
2. It reviews some historical threats like smallpox and newly emerging infections like anthrax.
3. Key strategies for addressing threats are recognition through surveillance of new diseases and coordinated intervention efforts like vaccine development, research, and public education.
Content
What is disease and disease control ?
What is disease Elimination and Eradication ?
Concept of control
Disease control measures
Breaking the chain of infection
National Health Programs for Disease Control
Learning Objectives
Describe about disease and disease control
Differentiate between disease elimination and eradication
Describe the chain of infection and measures to break it
Describe action to be taken for controlling of disease
Enlist the types of surveillance
Enlist the health program runs in India for controlling of disease
Disease
A pathogenic condition in which the normal functioning of an organism or body is impaired or disrupted resulting in extreme pain, dysfunction, distress, or death.
Source of disease
Human Tb, chickenpox, Covid-19
Water cholera, diarrhea, typhoid
Animal Rabies
Disease control
It refers to reducing the transmission of a disease to a level when it no longer remains a “public health problem”.
Example :- In London John Snow controlling the cholera by removing the handle of incriminated water pump.
Disease Elimination:
Reduction of incidence of a disease in a defined geographic area to a predetermined very low level or to zero with continued intervention is known as elimination.
Example - Elimination of Measles, Polio and Diphtheria from large geographic regions or areas.
Disease Eradication:
Eradication is permanent reduction to zero of the worldwide incidence of infection caused by a specific agent as a result of deliberate efforts.
Eradication literally means to "tear out by roots".
Example - Small pox is only a disease which is Eradicated
It is eradicated in 1980
Concept of control
The term disease control describes ongoing operations aimed at reducing :-
The incidence of disease
The duration of disease, and consequently the risk of transmission
The effects of infection, including both the physical and psychosocial complication
The financial burden to the community.
DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES
Every disease has certain weak link in the ‘Chain of transmission’.
The basic principle or approach in disease control is to identify that weakest link and break it.
This requires sound epidemiological knowledge about the disease study such as - Epidemiological determinants, Magnitude of disease, distribution of disease etc.
IV. Disease control measures are undertaken to –
- Prevent occurrence of disease
- Reduce morbidity and mortality due to disease
V. It requires :-
Teamwork,
Community participation,
Inter sectoral coordination
Political support and
Adequate information about disease epidemiology
• For disease control action taken at the following levels–
Controlling the Source of Infection
Interruption Transmission of Disease
Protection of Susceptible Host
Reservoir & Controlling the Source of Infection
The chain of transmission of a disease starts from the source or reservoir.
This document discusses tuberculosis (TB) in India. It notes that India has the highest TB burden in the world, accounting for nearly 1/5 of global cases. Every year approximately 1.8 million people develop TB in India, of which around 800,000 are new smear-positive cases. India also has the fastest expanding DOTS program for treating TB, which has treated over 7.3 million patients since 1997.
Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring, and often deadly disease caused by the variola virus. There are two main forms of smallpox - variola major, which has a 30% fatality rate, and variola minor, which has a fatality rate below 1%. After incubation, smallpox progresses through several stages including prodrome, early rash, pustular rash, and scabs. It is most contagious during the early rash stage. Through global vaccination efforts beginning in the 1960s, the WHO declared smallpox eradicated worldwide in 1980. However, concerns remain about bioterrorism using the smallpox virus, which is classified as a
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FIRST GENERATION ANTIHISTAMINICS-
1)HIGHLY SEDATIVE-DIPHENHYDRAMINE,DIMENHYDRINATE,PROMETHAZINE,HYDROXYZINE 2)MODERATELY SEDATIVE- PHENARIMINE,CYPROHEPTADINE, MECLIZINE,CINNARIZINE
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- **Nodules:** Large, solid, painful lumps beneath the surface.
- **Cysts:** Painful, pus-filled lumps beneath the surface that can cause scarring.
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1. Control and Eradication of
Animal diseases
Dr. Bhoj R Singh, Principal Scientist (VM)
Head Division of Epidemiology
Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar-243122, Bareilly, UP,
India.
2. • Control of Disease: Reduction in prevalence
Reduction in morbidity and mortality due to disease, it can be
achieved by:
1. Control: Treatment, Hygienic measure
2. Prevention: Reduce both incidence and prevalence, vaccines, hygienic measures
3. Eradication: Extinction of disease and disease agent from the globe (only few
diseases belong to this group, small pox, RP)
• Or
• Reduction in prevalence to the level at which no more transmission is possible
(usually regional eradication).
• Or
• Reduction in prevalence to the level at which it ceases to be a major health problem
though transmission of disease still exist.
• Or
• Regional extinction of disease and disease agent (FMD from Many countries of
Europe, rabies from Newzealand).
• Or
• Elimination, in which Agent persists but disease does not.
• Eradication is the reduction of an infectious disease's prevalence in the global host
population to zero.
• Elimination, describes either the reduction of an infectious disease's prevalence in a
regional population to zero, or the reduction of the global prevalence to a negligible
amount.
• Clearance of an infection means total removal of a given pathogen from an individual.
3. Global attempts of disease eradication
• Eight attempts have been made to date to eradicate
infectious diseases
a. Four aborted programs targeting Hookworms, Malaria, Yaws
and Yellow fever.
b. Two successful programs targeting Smallpox (Last case in
Somalia, 1977) and Rinderpest (On 8 August 2011, the United
Nations held a ceremony declaring the disease eradicated, making
rinderpest only the second disease in history to be fully wiped out,
following smallpox, the last confirmed case of rinderpest was
diagnosed in 2001 in Kenya).
c. Two ongoing programs targeting Poliomyelitis (Eliminated from
US in 1979) and Drancunculiasis (Guinea worm disease, Guinea-
worm disease is now restricted to 14 countries in Africa).
d. Five more infectious diseases have been identified as of April
2008 as potentially eradicable with current technology by the Carter
Centre International Task Force for Disease Eradication – Measles,
Mumps, Rubella, Lymphatic filariasis and Cysticercosis.
4. Regional elimination
• Some diseases have already been eliminated from large regions of the world, and/or
are currently being targeted for regional elimination. This is sometimes described as
"eradication", although technically the term only applies when this is achieved on a
global scale.
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob
disease (vCJD)
Following an epidemic of vCJD in the UK in the 1990s, there have been campaigns
to eliminate BSE in cattle across the EU and beyond which appear to have achieved
large reductions in the number of cattle with this disease. Cases of vCJD have also
fallen since then, for instance from an annual peak in the UK of 28 cases in 2000 to 3
cases in 2010. Following the ongoing eradication effort, only 22 cases of BSE were
reported worldwide in 2011, the fewest since at least 1988
• FMD: Ongoing program to control (eliminate) FMD from cattle and buffalo, in India
and several other countries in Africa is going on. The disease has already been
eradicated from Oceania, Japan, many of the European and North American
countries.
• Neonatal tetanus has been eliminated in over 100 countries but the disease
continues to kill almost 300 000 newborn babies every year, and tetanus kills about
40 000 mothers as well.
• Leprosy: The number of countries where the disease is a public health problem has
been reduced from 122 in 1985 to only 28. But leprosy remains a serious problem in
16 countries which together account for over 90% of all cases.
5. Extinction
• Finally, the literature sometimes refers to extinction as a possible
policy goal for control of a disease.
• In the context of infectious disease control, the concept is
problematic for two reasons.
– First, proving that an organism has become extinct is impossible. To do so would
require demonstrating not only that the organism no longer exists in nature but
also that it no longer exists in any controlled environment—a practical
impossibility.
– Second, de novo synthesis of viral agents from published genomes (Cello, Paul,
and Wimmer 2002) now put the concept in peril, although much research
remains to be done in this area.
Extinction, in the context of infectious diseases, may no longer be
irreversible.
6. Re-emergence
• Diseases once considered all but eradicated in the United States
have re-emerged in the past several years. The resurgence of
diseases like pertussis, tuberculosis, measles and mumps is an
expression of the dangers posed by failing infrastructure and
declining living standards for the working class.
• According to the CDC, approximately 90 percent of food-related
illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths were due to seven
pathogens: Salmonella, norovirus, Campylobacter, Toxoplasma,
E.coli O157, Listeria and Clostridium perfringens.
• In 1993, the United States suffered the worst episode of water-borne
disease with the outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis in Milwaukee
7. Types of Prevention of Diseases
• Primary: Prevent occurrence of new cases, i.e.,
cutting in incidence (vaccination)
• Secondary: Diagnose and treat the disease to
cut short the course of disease to prolong the life
span (in humans DOTS for TB)
• Tertiary: Treat chronic disease to reduce their
severity, prolong life span (care to HIV cases).
8. Frameworks for eradication of a disease
• Scientific considerations: nature of potential reservoirs for disease-causing microbes or their
vectors, technologies available for interrupting disease transmission, changes in host capabilities
to deter infections and disease, and satisfactory containment of organisms in laboratories.
• Geographic and Environmental Controls: The limit of endemicity for microbes and their
associated diseases is determined in part by their ability to exist in nature outside the main host.
Both geographic and temporal variations determine the ecological niche of microbes, resulting in
variable annual incidence rates throughout the world. This niche limitation is further extended to
intermediary vectors and hosts in complex biological systems.
• Potential Reservoirs: A microbe and associated disease can not be eradicated if the microbe is
capable of persisting and multiplying in a reservoir. Microbes that thrive in reservoir species may
reemerge if control efforts cease, thus leaving the populations susceptible
• Transmissibility: The inherent rate of a microbe's ability to cause secondary infections is defined
by an organism's reproductive rate in a fully susceptible (R0) and partially susceptible (R)
population. The reproductive rate of organisms that infect individuals only once because of
durable immunity is inversely proportional to the average age of infection in an endemic area.
• Natural Resistance to Reinfection: Many natural infections induce long-lived immunity to
reinfection. Although the most commonly used vaccines have been available for fewer than 50
years—less than the lifetime of an individual—they, too, are assumed to offer long-lasting
immunity.
• Laboratory Containment: Laboratory specimens containing the organism targeted for
eradication could serve as reservoirs. Considerable effort may be necessary to ensure their
maximum security. That these microbes may be inconspicuous in specimens collected for other
purposes poses special challenges.
9. Components of a eradication program
• Optimization of control requires a fundamental appreciation of the biological systems that
govern the ecology of microbes and their intermediary and human hosts. The reproductive
rate, R, is influenced by many local factors, including population density (of vectors,
intermediary hosts, and final host) and other environmentally determined conditions, all
highly variable throughout the world. For a disease to be controlled to stop transmission,
the intervention-altered reproductive rate must be maintained below 1.0. At the same time,
all reservoirs of the responsible microbe must be controlled.
• Three main components of possible eradication programs are
– surveillance, including environmental sampling where appropriate and
clinical testing
– interventions, including vaccination and chemotherapy or
chemoprophylaxis or both
– environmental controls and certification of eradication.
• Economic Considerations: Control and eradication programs have many economic dimensions:
private versus social net benefits, short-term versus long-term net benefits, and local versus
international net benefits. Such interventions also have implications for existing public health
programs.
10. Strategies to control and prevent
the diseases
1. Leave to the nature, seasonal diseases
like Malaria, Dengue, Blue tongue,
trypanosomiasis, where vector itself
vanish with change in season (in hot
summers and winters)
2. Minimize the risk of introduction of
exotic livestock diseases (Quarantine,
trade control).
11. 3. Minimize the risk of national spread of disease by restricting
hazardous animal trade practices and by improving peacetime biosecurity
measures and institution of appropriate and effective actions for the control
of disease outbreaks. Vaccination and prophylactic measures [Test and
slaughter, vaccination, regional restriction on movement, alternate/ mixed/
sequential grazing/ stall feeding (parasitic diseases), control of biological/
mechanical vectors, improving general sanitation (disinfection of fomites),
niche filling (Nurmi effect, fowl typhoid and S. Enteritidis), genetic
improvement through selective breeding , transgenics (genetic diseases/
hereditary disorders e.g. canine hip dysplasia, canine cyclic neutropenia),
improvement in environment, animal husbandry practices (mastitis control).
Required services to effectively implement the control programs at
National, regional level:
– Health tests and certification to assure that livestock and poultry are free
of diseases when they are sold or shipped.
– Analyzing the state’s livestock population through continuous monitoring
and testing at livestock markets and shows.
– Coordination of animal and poultry disease eradication programs.
– Investigations of drug residue cases and tracebacks associated with
suspect animals.
12. • Effective legislation [Animal disease
Act, Farcy and Glanders Act, Notifiable
disease Act, Animal Disease Control Act
(In India different states enacted these in
1960s)]
• Effective disease surveillance and
early detection of disease (Animal
Disease intelligence).
13. Improving animal disease
intelligence
• Animal disease intelligence is the analysis of animal disease events
and information on related environmental or economic variables to
identify the causes or drivers of disease introduction and spread that
may represent risks to animal and human health or people's
livelihoods.
• Animal disease intelligence is essential for prevention of diseases in
humans, livestock or wildlife.
• What is needed? Integration of national and regional data from
animal and human demographic statistics, field and laboratory
disease surveillance results, and environmental or agro-system
variables with the existing global surveillance systems. This
integration is essential to improve early and rapid disease detection,
robust analyses, expedient warning and timely risk management.
14. What affect the disease control and
eradication program?
What are the incentives for states to participate in an eradication effort? To begin,
assume that countries are symmetric, meaning that all countries have the same
benefits and costs of control. Assume as well that eradication is feasible. Four
possible situations then exist (Barrett 2003):
• First, the global net benefit of eradication may be negative—the cumulative
programmatic costs outweigh the net present value of the cumulative benefits. In this
case, elimination would also yield a negative net benefit to every country, and so no
country would eliminate the disease.
• Second, the global net benefit of eradication may be so large that each country
would choose to eliminate the disease even if others did not. In this case, all
countries would eliminate the disease, and the disease would therefore be
eradicated. In these two cases, no need exists for an international policy.
• Third, each country may have an incentive to eliminate a disease only if all
other countries have eliminated it. In this case, achieving global eradication
requires coordination. Here a role exists for international policy, but all that is required
is for each country to be assured that all others will eliminate the disease.
• Finally, and noting that the "last" country to eliminate a disease would get just
a fraction of the global dividend from eradication, under some circumstances no
incentive may exists for this country to eliminate the disease—even if all other
countries have done so and even if the entire world would be better off if it did. This
case is the most worrisome, because implementation of the efficient outcome would
likely require enforcement.
15. Strengthening Laboratory and
Epidemiology Networks
• Regional veterinary laboratory and epidemiology
networks are an efficient and effective platform for
sustainable infectious disease management.
• These networks represent an ideal mechanism to foster
leadership, develop regional expertise centres, enhance
performance and harmonization, build trust, and create
tangible results which can inspire healthy emulation
within and outside a given region.
• Combining laboratories and networks with public health,
socioeconomic, wildlife conservation or communication
professionals greatly increases the usefulness of these
systems for policy makers involved in animal and human
health.
16. Aspects of Animal Disease
control/ prevention
• Socioeconomics
• Animal diseases have multidimensional
impacts in people’s livelihoods
• People play a vital role in the prevention and
the emergence of animal diseases.
• Understanding and managing societal and
institutional drivers of disease emergence,
spread and maintenance is critical in developing
appropriate approaches to disease prevention
and control by the identification of critical control
points for surveillance or intervention.
17. One-Health
• Human health is inextricably linked to environment, animal health and
production.
• These links are particularly important in developing countries where
many people rely on animals for food, income, transportation,
draught power, fuel and clothing.
• About 70 percent of the new human diseases that have appeared
during the past two decade originate from animals or from products
of animal origin.
• Animal diseases that affect humans undermine the efficient
production of food, particularly of high-quality protein and can create
barriers to trade.
• The FAO VPH unit & WHO supports “One-Health” initiative for
capacity building in countries for the effective prevention and control
of diseases of animal origin that affect human health and well-being,
at all stages from production to consumption.
18. Wildlife and Ecosystems
• The health of people, livestock, wildlife and the environment are
intricately interconnected. The One-Health approach addresses
public health and pandemic disease concerns through
multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral, multi-institutional cooperation.
• It is well known that wildlife can serve as the reservoir of certain
diseases that impact livestock and human health, but the challenge
remains in identifying and implementing actions that prevent disease
transmission, enables wildlife conservation, and concurrently
promotes food security and rural development.
• Wild birds have been implicated in the transmission of influenza
viruses along their migratory routes and within diverse agro-
ecological settings and their roles in the epidemiology of avian
influenza viruses are currently being evaluated through surveillance,
outbreak response activities, and migration and ecology studies
using satellite telemetry.
• SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are the recent examples.
19. Global Early Warning System for
Animal Diseases including
Zoonoses (GLEWS)
• The overall objective of GLEWS
To improve the early warning and response capacity to animal
disease threats of the three sister organizations (FAO, OIE and
WHO) for the benefit of the international community.
Action out puts:
1. Tracking of zoonotic disease outbreaks that merit further validation.
Sources of information can be official or unofficial from the global
human and veterinary public health communities.
2. Information sharing and validation is performed through the
appropriate organizations. GLEWS links with the International Food
Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) to ensure that food safety
events are managed along the farm to table continuum.
3. Multidisciplinary disease analysis provides added value to global
early warning of zoonotic disease.
20. What triggers GLEWS
• A potential event is assessed according to criteria
derived from the International Health Regulations (2005)
and the Terrestrial Animal Health Code from OIE:
• Is the public health impact of the event serious?
– High morbidity and/or high mortality in humans and/or animals.
– Emerging disease with significant mortality and/or morbidity or
zoonotic potential.
• Is the event unusual or unexpected?
– First occurrence or reoccurrence of a disease/strain.
– Unusual event for the area or season.
– Event associated with an unknown agent.
• Is there significant risk of international spread or
interference with international travel or trade?
21. Collaborating centres in GLEWS
International Organizations
• The Mediterranean Zoonoses Control program (MZCP)
• Codex Alimentarius
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
Non-Governmental Organizations
• Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD)
• Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
• World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• WWF
22. Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES)
for transboundary animal and plant pests
and diseases.
• The EMPRES-livestock: an FAO
initiative.
• Source of information
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• EARLY WARNING,
• EARLY/RAPID REACTION,
• ENABLING RESEARCH and
• COORDINATION
23. Vision of EMPRES
• Early Warning is identified as all disease initatives, which would be based
predominantly on epidemiological surveillance, that would lead to improved
awareness and knowledge of the distribution of disease or infection and that
might permit the forecasting further evolution of an outbreak.
• Early Reaction is identified as all actions that would be targeted at rapid
and effective containment of, and leading, to the elimination of a disease
outbreak, thus preventing it from turning into a serious epidemic. This
includes contingency planning and emergency preparedness.
• Enabling Research is identified as a prime element of EMPRES which
emphasizes the collaboration between FAO and scientific centres of
excellence in directing research efforts towards problem solving.
• Coordination involves either coordination of global eradication for an
identified animal disease, such as rinderpest, eg., through the Global
Rinderpest Eradication program, or encouraging regional initiatives for
eradication of a given transboundary animal disease.
24. Vaccines that are instrumental in prevention
and control of infectious diseases
Diseases
Annual deaths
(all ages) if no
immunization Prevented Occurring / year % prevented
Smallpox 5.0 million 5.0 million -- 100
Diphtheria 260,000 223,000 37,000 86
Whooping cough 990,000 630,000 360,000 64
Measles 2.7 million 1.6 million 1.1 million 60
Neonatal tetanus 1.2 million 0.7 million 0.5 million 58
Hepatitis B 1.2 million 0.4 million 0.8 million 33
Tuberculosis 3.2 million 0.2 million 3.0 million 6
Polio (cases of lifelong
paralysis)
640,000 550,000 90,000 86
Malaria/other parasitic
infections
2.2 million -- 2.2 million 0
HIV/sexually transmitted
diseases
1.3 million -- 1.3 million 0
Diarrhoea/enteric fevers* 3.0 million -- 3.0 million 0
Acute respiratory infections 3.7 million -- 3.7 million
0
COVID-19 2.5 million ----- 200 million
Vaccines failed to
prevent
25. Epidemiologic features of smallpox that
favor eradication
• Reservoir and host Man
• Transmissibility Relatively low
• Subclinical cases Never or rare
• Incubation Long—12 days
• Public concern Very great
• Vaccine
– Efficacy >98%
– Logistics Practical, bifurcated needle
– Cost Minimal
• Seasonality Striking
26. Essential principles in WHO smallpox
eradication program
1. Development and use of uniformly potent smallpox vaccines tested at several
international laboratories
2. Provision of widespread vaccination of populations in target countries where
smallpox was endemic
3. Principle outcome measure was the absence of cases of smallpox
– Program relied on active surveillance
– When cases were identified, their contacts were immediately vaccinated to abort
further transmission
• Surveillance
1. Mobile surveillance teams visit bazaars, schools, train and bus stations, beggar colonies, bustees
2. Rewards for notification of smallpox cases—at train and bus stations, rickshaw announcers, school
children, soccer games
3. Intensive search around areas of outbreaks
4. Epidemiologic investigation of every smallpox outbreak to detect source, travel of case, and travel of
contacts
5. Monthly municipal area house-to-house search
6. In later stages, national house-to-house search
All smallpox supplies were supposed to be kept in two maximum containment locations
• 1. CDC, Atlanta
• 2. Novosibirsk, Russia
27. Animal Disease eradication programs
• EU
• Bovine tuberculosis
• Bovine brucellosis
• Ovine and caprine brucellosis (B. melitensis)
• Bluetongue in endemic or high risk areas
• African swine fever
• Swine vesicular disease
• Classical swine fever
• Avian influenza
• Rabies
• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)
• Salmonellosis (zoonotic salmonella)
• US eradication programs include scrapie in sheep and goats, tuberculosis in
cattle and cervids, pseudorabies and brucellosis in swine, and brucellosis in
cattle and bison.
• USDA announced on July 10, 2009, that for the first time in the history of the
Brucellosis program, all 50 States were Class Free for the disease in domestic cattle
herds. The Cooperative State Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program was
established in 1934.
28. The main aspects of the TB and Brucellosis Diseases
Eradication Schemes in US
• Annual testing for TB (the "Round" test) of the national herd and/or designated categories of
animals, with primary responsibility is assigned to farmers;
• Follow-up and focused strategic additional testing, including use of blood testing for TB in certain
circumstances;
• Restriction of holdings when reactors are disclosed.
• Movement of any animal into or out of a restricted holding is prohibited, except with the
written permission of the DVO and on foot of a movement permit.
• Restriction of inconclusive TB reactor animals to herd for life or direct to slaughter or via a feedlot
direct to slaughter.
• Restriction, pending test, of relevant herds contiguous to a high risk TB breakdown where those
herds were not tested in the previous four months.
• Rapid removal of reactors to meat factories or, in the case of calves which are deemed to be of no
commercial value, to knackeries (subject to age/weight limitations). Removal is paid for by the
Department).
• A range of compensation (on market rates) measures for farmers whose herds are affected by
disease;
• Delays in testing or removing reactors due to lack of co-operation by the farmer, for whatever reason
(including valuation/compensation issues), may lead to a reduction in compensation.
• A badger culling program where they are implicated in a disease breakdown.
• Improved epidemiology and feedback to farmers;
• A comprehensive research program aimed at preventing TB spread by wildlife and the development
of blood tests, vaccines and other technological tools required to improve effectiveness of programs.
• Payment of disease levies by farmers on cattle slaughtering/live exports and milk deliveries.
29. New Zealand
• New Zealand is free from all the major epidemic diseases, such as rabies and
the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The once endemic conditions
of sheep scab (Psoroptes ovis), bovine brucellosis (Brucella abortus), hydatids
(Echinococcus granulosus) and Aujeszky’s disease have been eradicated.
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) is no longer considered endemic and Pullorum
disease (Salmonella Pullorum) has effectively been eradicated from
commercial poultry flocks.
• There are current control programs for bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium
bovis), enzootic bovine leucosis in dairy cattle, infectious bursal disease, ovine
epididymitis (Brucella ovis), and caprine arthritis encephalitis.
30. Some Control Programs for Animal
Disease in India
• RP Control and eradication program
• CBPP Control and eradication program
• FMD Control and eradication program
• PPR Control Program
• Glanders Control Program
• Brucellosis Control Program
• CSF-Control Program