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Friday, 13 June 2008

What Is Biosecurity and Why Is It Important to Me?

In the context of livestock production, biosecurity refers to those measures taken to keep disease agents out of populations, herds, or groups of animals where they do not already exist. Biosecurity measures can be implemented on a national, state, or herd level. Currently, there is heightened awareness of national biosecurity as the United States attempts to keep foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) out of its animal population.

In addition to national concerns, individual states take measures to prevent the entry/reintroduction of livestock diseases they have been able to prevent/eliminate from their herds by setting requirements for arriving animals. Examples of diseases that are of particular concern to states include brucellosis, tuberculosis, and pseudorabies.

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