Foreign Animal Diseases
乐博传媒Committee on Transboundary and Emerging Diseases page
General reference
Report a Suspected FAD — Describes the procedure to report a suspected foreign animal disease. (Updated: 11/2018)
The national program that allows category II accredited veterinarians to train producers and caretakers prior to a foreign animal disease outbreak how to properly collect, handle, and submit samples from swine for diagnostic and surveillance purposes.
— Also known as “The Gray Book”, this guide was compiled by the USAHA Committee on Foreign and Emerging Diseases in 2008.
— Reference for emerging and exotic diseases of animals. The Center is based at ISU and directed by Dr. Jim Roth.
Farm Crisis Operations Planning Tool
— National Pork Board recourses including barn friendly wall charts for foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever, African swine fever, and visitor and employee biosecurity.
— The WOAH is the worldwide repository of animal disease information including outbreaks, distribution, trade standards, testing methodologies, treatment/prevention/control procedures. Made up of 160+ countries, the WOAH is recognized by the World Trade Organization as the standard-setting reference organization for animal health.
— Compilation of WOAH information regarding disease outbreaks and distribution. The database can be searched by disease, country or region.
— Describes guidelines set forth by the European Commission directorate governing animal health issues concerning EU member countries.
— United Kingdom’s animal disease reference website.
Biosecurity factsheets for international travel
— This factsheet, developed by the Center for Food Security and Public Health in collaboration with 乐博传媒and Pork Checkoff, describes actions you can take during your international visit and upon returning home to minimize the risk of transmitting a transboundary or foreign animal disease to U.S. livestock.
— This fact sheet, developed by the Center for Food Security and Public Health in collaboration with 乐博传媒and Pork Checkoff, describes actions you can take to minimize the risk of international visitors introducing a transboundary or foreign animal disease to U.S. livestock.
Feed
— Swine industry experts have compiled these seven critical points for pig farmers to raise with their feed and feed ingredient suppliers with the objective of starting a dialog about feed ingredient safety. Development of the points to help start the discussion about feed and feed ingredient risk was done with review and input by the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), Kansas State University and the University of Minnesota.
— Factsheet produced by AASV, NPB, NPPC and SHIC describing holding time calculations for some feed ingredients to mitigate virus transmission.
Half-life Quarantine Time Calculations for Feed Ingredients — Factsheet produced by AASV, NPB, NPPC and SHIC describing the methodology for establishing quarantine times for feed ingredients based on viral half-life.
Secure Pork Supply
USDA
— Describes the procedures for packaging and shipping samples to the USDA’s Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab (FADDL) at Plum Island.
— USDA APHIS Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Plan website includes Guidelines, Industry Manuals, Standard Operating Procedures and other resources.
— Manual developed by the Center for Food Security and Public Health in collaboration with AASV, NPB, University of Minnesota and USDA to provide background information on the U.S. swine industry for use by responders during an animal health emergency.
— Describes the services offered by NVSL.
— Provides information regarding the NAHLN laboratory system, lab locations and lists labs approved for specific testing.
— Provides contact information for USDA animal health contacts, including district offices for information about livestock health and disease and reporting of sick or dead livestock.
— Table of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered pesticides that may be used against the causative agents of selected foreign animal diseases in farm settings, as permitted by the EPA-registered product label.
— Provides information on collection techniques for swine diagnostic specimens and the necessary steps and regulations for collecting, labeling, packaging, and shipping diagnostic samples
Diseases
Foot and Mouth Disease
–Excellent reference for in-depth review of foot and mouth disease. Resources include technical and public fact sheets, PowerPoint presentations, English and Spanish lesion pocket guides, vaccination information, disease images, wall charts, response guidelines, and disinfectant lists.
–USDA information on foot and mouth disease including preparedness and response plans.
–Also known as “The Red Book”.
–Provides training to recognize vesicular diseases affecting livestock.
–WOAH webpage for international information on FMD.
African Swine Fever
— Excellent reference for in-depth review of African swine fever.
2010 ASF Update — Dr. Luis Rodriguez presented an update on the current spread of ASF and renewed research efforts at Plum Island during a presentation to the Transmissible Diseases of Swine committee at the 2010 USAHA Annual meeting.
— USDA information on African swine fever.
— outlines the USDA surveillance program to detect the presence or introduction of classical swine fever and African swine fever.
— WOAH webpage for international information on African swine fever.
ASF Powerpoint presentation (2018) — Basic ASF presentation developed by AASV.
USDA-Industry ASF meeting summary — On September 5, 2018, AASV, along with representatives from the National Pork Board, the National Pork Producers Council and the Swine Health Information Center, met with United States Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration officials to discuss ASF prevention concerns. Although the meeting focused mainly on prevention, topics discussed also included diagnostic testing, surveillance, feed and feed ingredient issues, garbage feeding controls and monitoring and the importation of pork casings. This link is a summary of the prevention issues discussed.
ASF FAQs from USDA and FDA — This link reflects topics discussed on September 5 with USDA and FDA and the status of measures being taken to prevent an ASF outbreak in the United States.
Classical Swine Fever (CSF, Hog Cholera)
— Excellent reference for in-depth review of classical swine fever. Resources include videos, wall posters, technical and public factsheets, and disease images.
— USDA CSF information
— outlines the USDA surveillance program to detect the presence or introduction of classical swine fever and African swine fever.
Classical Swine Fever Brochure — Brochure describing the clinical signs and lesions associated with classical swine fever.
Got Tonsil? — 乐博传媒brochure describing CSF and sample collection method for submitting tonsils for diagnostic and surveillance testing.
Pseudorabies (PRV, Aujesky’s Disease)
— USDA PRV information
PRV Final Report — USDA published report highlighting the history of the successful eradication of PRV from the commercial swine herd in the U.S.
— Program standards developed by the swine industry in collaboration with state and federal animal health officials to guide the PRV eradication program.
— Reference for in-depth review of pseudorabies virus.