Popular MeSH Terms: Communicable Disease Control

Total Results: 87

• National Animal Health Monitoring System: Sheep studies
  "NAHMS sheep studies provide an overview of sheep health, productivity, and management on U.S. sheep operations as well as information on animal health concerns identified by producers, industry allies, Federal and State agencies, and researchers.". Topics covered include: scrapie, feedlot health and management, ovine progressive pneumonia, and biosecurity.
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• Canada Communicable Disease Report
  The Canada Communicable Disease Report is published by the Population and Public Health Branch of Health Canada.
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• WHO: Food Safety
  The Food Safety Department of the WHO "strives to reduce the serious negative impact of foodborne diseases worldwide". Its website includes free access to the Department's publications including Food Safety News, the Departments newsletter.
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• Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
  CIDRAP, based at the University of Minnesota, aims to "prevent illness and death from infectious diseases through epidemiologic research and the rapid translation of scientific information into real-world practical applications and solutions". Its website provides links to resources in the areas of biosecurity, bioterrorism, and food safety and provides regular updates and news items.
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• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
  The OIE seeks to guarantee the transparency of animal disease status worldwide, collect, analyse and disseminate veterinary scientific information, provide expertise for the control of animal diseases and guarantee the sanitary safety of world trade by developing sanitary rules for international trade in animals and animal products. Publications include the International Animal Health Code, the Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines. The OIE also publishes weekly, bimonthly and annual compilations of Disease Information bulletins.
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• AUSVETPLAN
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
  Study module created by the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia as part of its International Veterinary Medicine program. The program provides eight different scenarios of typical ways in which veterinarians are exposed to these emerging zoonotic diseases.
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• Zoonotic Disease Tutorial
  "This tutorial has been developed as an educational resource on zoonotic diseases for veterinary, medical and nursing students and practitioners, and anyone interested in these infectious diseases" by Dr. Christopher W. Olsen, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin. It provides information and links on a large number of zoonoses.
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• National Biosecurity Resource Center for Animal Health Emergencies
  Hosted by Purdue University. Includes online access to Purdue articles from the Journal of Swine Health and Production. Links to an online version of the 6th edition of Foreign Animal Diseases, produced by the Foreign Animal Diseases Committee of the United States Animal Health Association
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• Biosecurity Australia
  Biosecurity Australia assesses quarantine risks associated with import proposals for animals and plants and their products. Its website publishes plant and animal import risk analyses, international standards and obligations, exotic pests, and disease and weed fact sheets. It also publishes animal and plant biosecurity policy memoranda, policy revisions and scientific reviews, and the Import Risk Analysis Process Handbook.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Avian Influenza
  Interim draft Version 3.1 2005. This strategy sets out the disease control principles approved by the Primary Industries Ministerial Council use in an animal health emergency caused by the occurence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Australia.
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• Danish Zoonosis Centre
  The Danish Zoonosis Centre is part of the Danish Government Ministry of Food Agriculture and Fisheries. Its website publishes data from its surveillance programs and details of research and development projects human infection outbreaks.
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• EpiVetNet
  This site is maintained by Dirk Pfeiffer from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. The site includes links to conferences, contacts, links, mailing lists, publications, reading lists, software, training and a what's new section.
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• PHYTO
  PHYTO is AQIS's plant and plant product export conditions database. It "contains information about the conditions to export plants and plant products, including fruit, vegetables, seeds, grains, cut flowers and timber from Australia". As well as a search function it also features an alerts and whats changed section.
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• Animal Health Surveillance
  Quarterly magazine published by NSW Department of Primary Industries. Provides updates on animal health and disease and the Department's animal health surveillance activities and projects.
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• Communicable Diseases Report/CDR Weekly
  CDR Weekly is an electronic bulletin published by the Health Protection Agency. It comprises a weekly section of public health news and other pages of routine microbiological and epidemiological data and reports, which are updated on a monthly basis.
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• Beef Cattle Parasite Controls
  Produced by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at Oklahoma State University, USA, this full-text article outlines the control of pests such as the horn fly, stable fly, black fly, heel fly and mosquito. The document is in .pdf format.
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• Foodborne, Waterborne and Zoonotic Infections Division
  The Foodborne, Waterborne and Zoonotic Infections Division division of the Population and Public Health Branch of Health Canada, has a mandate to "assess and reduce the risk of foodborne, waterborne and enteric disease in Canadians through national surveillance and targeted special studies".
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• A Dictionary of (Ecological) Epidemiology
  Edited by Jonathan Swinton, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a researcher for Proteom, a bioinformatics company.
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• The International Society for Infections Diseases
  "ISID is committed to improving the care of patients with infectious diseases, the training of clinicians and researchers in infectious diseases and microbiology, and the control of infectious diseases around the world."
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• University of Canterbury (NZ): Resources for Biosecurity
  Published by the University of Canterbury Library. Provides links to government and non government biosecurity resources from New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.
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• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  Emerging Infectious Diseases is a peer reviewed journal tracking and analysing disease trends published monthly by the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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• UK Zoonoses Group
  The UK Zoonoses Group provides high level forum for the discussion of animal and human health aspects of zoonoses and their control and covers the whole of the UK. Its website gives details of its meetings and papers.
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• Food Standards Australia New Zealand
  A bi-national independent statutory authority that develops food standards for composition, labelling and contaminants, including microbiological limits, that apply to all foods produced or imported for sale in Australia and New Zealand.
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• New Zealand Biosecurity Institute
  The NZBI's mission is to "preserve and protect New Zealand's natural resources from the adverse impacts of invasive pests". The site includes information for travellers, importers, producers, schools and gardeners. Includes information on exotic pests and diseases and pest identification. It also publishes proceedings of its seminars and the selected articles from its quarterly magazine Protect.
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• Pigs: Disease Information
  This site, by Merial, provides information about pig diseases. It divides the endoparasites and ectoparasites into their constituent groups, and looks at their biology, damage to the host and control issues.
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• Communicable Diseases Intelligence
  A quarterly publication of the Surveillance Section of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. It aims to provide information about communicable diseases in Australia to inform and assist those with responsibility for communicable disease control in a wide variety of settings. All issues of the publication from 1996 to the present are freely available on this website.
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• IDEAS: Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Surveillance
  Website published by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services. Provides information on diseases, guidelines, surveillance, notifying cases of infectious diseases, and daily updates.
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• Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
  The WIFSS is based at the University of California at Davis. Its mission is to "conduct research that will enhance food safety in all sectors of the food systems' continuum from environment to consumer". The website provides details of the institutes research as well as links to other resources.
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• Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS)
  AQIS "provides quarantine inspection for the arrival of international passengers, cargo, mail, animals and plants or their products into Australia, and inspection and certification for a range of animal and plant products exported from Australia". Its website includes import, export and quarantine legislation, forms and documents for import and export activities relating to animals, biological products, food, plants and grains.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Norwegian Zoonosis Centre
  The Norwegian Zoonosis Centre is a separate unit, organized in the National Veterinary Institute, in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health. Its website publishes the annual Norwegian report on zoonoses and zoonotic agents according to the EU Zoonosis Directive prepared by the Centre.
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• Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
  A multilingual, web based course developed by a team headed by Ronald E LaPorte at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Sections include: epidemiology in general, epidemiology in specific diseases and topics, and biostatistics.
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• ICON
  ICON is AQIS's import conditions database. It contains "information about Australian import conditions for more than 20,000 foreign plant, animal, mineral and human commodities" and can be used to "determine if a commodity intended for import to Australia needs a quarantine permit and/or treatment or if there are any other quarantine prerequisites".
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• National Center for Animal Health Surveillance (US)
  The National Center for Animal Health Surveillance is divided into two distinct organisations . The National Surveillance Unit (NSU) devoted solely to animal disease surveillance and the National Animal Health Monitoring System which was has the aim of collecting, analysing, and disseminating data on animal health, management, and productivity across the US. The site publishes a vast collection of reports and other publications
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• Avian influenza prevention in ratite and gamebird facilities
  This article is authored by R. Scott Bayer, Extension Specialist, Poultry, Kansas State University. It is a practical guide to practicing biosecurity to prevent the spread of avian diseases on ratite farms.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  \"AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion\". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• FoodSafety.gov
  FoodSafety.gov is a US gateway website that provides links to food safety-related information published by US government agencies including the USDA, FDA, CDC, EPA and FSIS. The sites search engine allows the user to search for information on a specific topic or produced by a particular agency.
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• Veterinary Epidemiology: An Introduction
  Electronic textbook written by Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. Includes: basic concepts of veterinary epidemiology, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, sampling of animal populations, interpretation of diagnostic tests, epidemiological animal disease information management.
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• What is the SPS Agreement?
  This is the full text of the World Trade Organisation agreement on applying sanitary and phytosanitary measures to protect health of people, animals and plants, while facilitating trade. It is published on the web by the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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• AUSVETPLAN
  AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion. There are individual disease strategies, and manuals concerning operational procedures, enterprise, management and wild animal.
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• UK Zoonoses reports
  Published annually by DEFRA. The reports pull together data on the prevalence of zoonoses in humans, animals and food.
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• Northwest Zoonoses Group
  Northwest Zoonoses Group's mission is "to identify and respond to issues of zoonotic disease in North West England". Its website provides an alphabetical listing of zoonotic diseases with a brief description and links to further resources for each disease.
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• Plant Health Australia
  Plant Health Australia is a peak national coordinating body for plant health in Australia. Research areas include industry biosecurity planning, national surveillance, and development of a plant pest database. Its website publishes fact sheets, research documents, threat summary tables and issues papers
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• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries-Biosecurity New Zealand
  The MAF Biosecurity Authority mission statement is to "protect New Zealand's unique biodiversity and facilitate exports by managing risks to plant and animal health and animal welfare". Its website publishes information and policies on imports, exports, pests and diseases, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures. It also regularly publishes Biosecurity and Surveillance magazines.
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia.
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• Communicable Diseases Intelligence Technical report series
  Published by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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• National pests and disease outbreaks
  This website was developed collaboratively across State & Territory and Australian Government agricultural agencies to provide a single, user-friendly website through which stakeholders can find access to local, state and national information in relation to Australian responses to current ongoing outbreaks of animal and plant pests and diseases.
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• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  Part of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.
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• Australia's Biosecurity Health Response
  Published by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, this website is designed to provide information about the response by Australia's health authorities to the threat of the release of a chemical or biological agent in Australia
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne's Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS)
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• Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook
  Published by the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition of the Food & Drug Administration (US).
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• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
  This is the 4th edition of the text by D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM, Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM and DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG published on the British Medical Journal web site in 1997.
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• National Animal Health Information System
  Published by Animal Health Australia. Collects, collates, analyses and manages summary information on Australia's animal health status to support trade in animal commodities and meet Australia's international reporting obligations. Also provides information on animal disease surveillance and control.
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• Foreign Animal Diseases "The Gray Book"
  Electronic book published by the United States Animal Health Association. Features an alphabetical listing of foreign animal diseases with details of etiology, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, and control and eradication for each disease.
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• National Centre for Aquatic Biodiversity and Biosecurity (NCABB)
  The NCABB was established by the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research to facilitate access to information on freshwater and marine biodiversity and biosecurity. It publishes reports and news items as well as its newsletter, Aquatic Biodiversity & Biosecurity
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne\'s disease and details of Johne\'s disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne\'s Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS)
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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are part of the US Government Department of Health and Human Services. Their mission is to "promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability". Their website serves as an entry point to a vast amount of information on many zoonoses.
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• Epidemiology Concepts for Disease in Animal Groups
  Prepared by John M. Gay at the Washington State University in the USA. The purpose of this site \"is to introduce the epidemiologic concepts applicable to understanding disease in animal groups to veterinary students and veterinary practitioners in a self-learning mode.\"
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• WTO: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
  The World Trade Organization website publishes the full text of SPS related papers and documents, including a handbook on applying transparency provisions. It also provides links to member governments' SPS web sites and related organisations.
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• NSW animal health emergency sub-plan
  Provides details of control and coordination arrangements in response to an animal health emergency in New South Wales.
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• The Weekly Epidemiological Record
  Published by WHO. The Weekly Epidemiological Record "serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases". Issues from 1926 to the present are published in .pdf format and are freely accessible.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Health Protection Agency: Zoonoses
  Information on zoonotic disease, notifiable zoonoses, laboratory investigation of zoonotic infections and zoonotic surveillance. It also provides links to publications and other zoonoses resources.
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• Codex Alimentarius Commission
  Codex Alimentarius Commission develops food standards, guidelines and codes of practice under the Joint Food and Agriculture Organisation / World Health Organisation Food Standards Programme.
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• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  "APHIS is responsible for protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, administering the Animal Welfare Act, and carrying out wildlife damage management activities". Its website publishes a large range of resources on food safety, animal health, and surveillance.
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• AUSVETPLAN
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Victorian Infectious Diseases Bulletin
  The Victorian Infectious Diseases Bulletin is published quarterly by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services, Communicable Diseases Section.
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• Communicable Diseases Australia
  hosted by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing Information on communicable disease surveillance in Australia. This includes data collection for national notifiable diseases and the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal.
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• ProMED-mail
  ProMED-mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. It is "an Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid and global dissemination of information about outbreaks of infectious diseases that affect human health.
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• Australian Biosecurity CRC
  The Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre's mission is to "protect Australia's public health, livestock, wildlife and economic resources through research and education that strengthens the national capability to detect, diagnose, identify, monitor, assess, predict and respond to emerging infectious disease threats which impact on national and regional biosecurity."
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  \"AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion\". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• Global Salmonella Survey
  The WHO's Global Salmonella Survey is a global network of laboratories and individuals involved in surveillance, isolation, identification and antimicrobial resistance testing of Salmonella. The programme is targeted to microbiologists and epidemiologists who work in public health, veterinary services, food-related services or environmental health. Its website provides details of its objectives and strategies, training course schedule, and publications.
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• Veterinary Informatics and Epidemiology (VIE)
  VIE is a joint initiative between the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. It combines areas such as epidemiology, mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to focus on research in animal disease and modeling. This page contains links to web-based modules devoted to specific diseases.
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• Biosecurity Resources
  Published by Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. Includes documents on the fundamentals of biosecurity, agroterrorism, and risk assessment tables.
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• Animal Health Australia
  AHA is a not-for-profit corporation established by business and government. Its website includes reports, newsletters and updates on programs concerning animal health services, animal diseases surveillance and emergency animal disease preparedness.
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• Biosecurity
  Resources on the prevention of the arrival of new pests and diseases and the eradication or control of existing ones.
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• Ovine Johne's Disease
  Collection of resources on OJD published by the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia.
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• EU: Food Safety - from the farm to the fork
  The EU integrated approach to food safety aims to assure a high level of food safety, animal health, animal welfare and plant health within the European Union through coherent farm-to-table measures and adequate monitoring, while ensuring the effective functioning of the internal market
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• WWWeb Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians
  Compiled by John M. Gay, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, ACE, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University. Resources include online texts and courses, organisational, governmental and biostatistical data sources and web sites.
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• ANIMEX
  "ANIMEX is AQIS's live animal and reproductive material export conditions database. It contains import conditions for live animals and reproductive material for many countries as well as information about Australian export requirements, including disease freedom status, testing and treatments, health certification, transport and the need for permits". The database can be searched by country, species, or keyword.
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• Accreditation Program for Australian Veterinarians (APAV)
  Published by Animal Health Australia. APAV is a national program designed to integrate private veterinary practitioners into the national animal health system.
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• Eurosurveillance
  The Eurosurveillance project is funded by the European Commission with the aim to promote the diffusion and exchange of information on communicable diseases. It includes a monthly publication Eurosurveillance, a peer-reviewed journal on communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control and a weekly bulletin Eurosurveillance Weekly, a bulletin for epidemic alerts, updates, and responses.
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne's Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS). Includes a section on Bovine Johne's Disease.
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• Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses
  The Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses is part of the Population and Public Heath Branch of Health Canada. Its website provides details of its activities, program areas and projects.
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• Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
  This resource, created by John M Gay of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, includes sections covering epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, general science, clinical testing, clinical study design and methods, and experimental design and statistics.
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• Invasive Species Specialist Group
  The Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) is part of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of The World Conservation Union (IUCN). The ISSG aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native species they contain by increasing awareness of invasive alien species, and of ways to prevent, control or eradicate them. Includes a Global Invasive Species Database, newsletter and discussion list.
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