Full Description
In this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, guest editors Drs. Elizabeth Parker, Charles Fossler, and Carla Huston bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Transboundary Diseases of Cattle and Bison. Top experts discuss the highly contagious diseases that affect cattle and bison and present strategies to mitigate the health risks.
Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including lumpy skin disease; Rift Valley fever; re-emerging/notifiable diseases to watch; outbreak investigations, compartmentalization/regionalization vaccination; and more.
Provides in-depth clinical reviews on transboundary diseases of cattle and bison, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Contents
Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Disease Investigations & Initial Response: Considerations from Policy to Farm
Readiness and Response: The Practitioner's Role
The Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases - Strengthening Infectious Disease Management and Veterinary Systems Across the Continents: Origins and Testimony
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
Lumpy Skin Disease
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia: Global Eradication Remains a Challenging and Distant Goal
Rift Valley Fever
Transboundary Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Threats to Cattle
Reemerging/Notifiable Diseases to Watch
Rinderpest: A Disease of the Past, and a Present Threat
