Above we see a graphic of typical routes of transmission of a Transboundary Animal Disease.
Okay, finally, now we get to do some study and homework on DISEASES!
Transboundary Animal Diseases are defined as those diseases that can easily move from one area to another and create serious
animal health or economic impacts.
In the US, we used to refer to these as Foreign Animal Diseases (or FADs), which probably only reflects our ethnocentrism! Now we refer to them as Transboundary Animal Diseases, or TADs.
ruminants
For this lesson, the focus is on transboundary diseases of ruminants.
A narrated PowerPoint explaining some of the key transboundary diseases of ruminants can be found BELOW....
FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASES (now TADs)
You might also want to visit the on-line Foreign Animal Diseases text...
It's published by the US Animal Health Association. Note that here is a chapter for each of the transboundary diseases.
You can link in here...
ALSO, A FIELD MANUAL WITH TADS
Also, A Field Manual of Animal Diseases by Syndromes, with Transboundary Animal Diseases...
This publication has very useful descriptions and photos of important diseases of livestock. You can link in here...
YOUR ASSIGNMENT ABOUT TADs
Make a 5 minute lesson (WITHOUT PowerPoint) to communicate key concepts of one of these Transboundary Animal Diseases to a group of farmers.