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Modules

Overview
Learning Objectives
  • Explain what biosecurity means
  • Describe why biosecurity is important
  • Identify what kinds of disease agents we try to prevent or control with biosecurity
  • Demonstrate disease agent-host-environmental interactions that result in disease
  • Identify five routes of infection
  • Describe how diseases are transmitted in animals
  • List four categories of disease agent sources
  • Discover conditions when disease transmission is likely to occur
  • Describe the means of disease transmission in a given situation
  • Identify actions that can reduce biosecurity risk
  • Develop a biosecurity action plan for a farm
  • Select the most cost effective strategies