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Animal vaccination is the immunisation of a domestic, livestock or wild animal. [1] The practice is connected to veterinary medicine. [1] The first animal vaccine invented was for chicken cholera in 1879 by Louis Pasteur. [2] The production of such vaccines encounter issues in relation to the economic difficulties of individuals, the government ...
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ( APHIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) based in Riverdale, Maryland responsible for protecting animal health, animal welfare, and plant health. APHIS is the lead agency for collaboration with other agencies to protect U.S. agriculture from invasive pests and ...
Plum Island Animal Disease Center. / 41.178889°N 72.205556°W / 41.178889; -72.205556. Plum Island Animal Disease Center ( PIADC) is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of foreign animal diseases of livestock. It is a national laboratory of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Directorate for Science ...
A canine vector-borne disease ( CVBD) is one of "a group of globally distributed and rapidly spreading illnesses that are caused by a range of pathogens transmitted by arthropods including ticks, fleas, mosquitoes and phlebotomine sandflies ." [1] CVBDs are important in the fields of veterinary medicine, animal welfare, and public health. [1]
In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living [1] agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living organism. [2] [3] Agents regarded as vectors are mostly blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes. The first major discovery of a disease vector came from Ronald Ross in 1897, who discovered ...
Broadly defined, the "United States Biological Defense Program" now also encompasses all federal-level programs and efforts to monitor, prevent, and contain naturally occurring infectious disease outbreaks of widespread public health concern. These include efforts to forestall large-scale disasters [2] such as flu pandemics and other "emerging ...
On Nov. 16, 2023, President Joe Biden signed into law H.R. 6363, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024 (Pub. L. 118-22), which extended the Agriculture Improvement ...
Select agent. Under United States law, Biological select agents or toxins ( BSAT s)—or simply select agents for short—are bio-agents which (since 1997 [1]) have been declared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to have the "potential to pose a severe threat to public ...