Sentences with phrase «zoonosis control»

Dr. Wright has also worked as a regional Meat Safety Assurance Veterinary for the Department of State Health Services and a zoonosis veterinarian in the department's zoonosis control program.

«Feral cats evoke hot debates about ecological issues, individual cat welfare, human responsibilities, intercat disease transmission, humaneness, zoonosis control, and management and dissolution of unowned cats.»

Ms. Wilson lives in Austin, Texas and works at the Texas Department of State Health Services in the Zoonosis Control Branch.

In 2010, Rollo accepted a position at the Department of State Health Services in Houston where she served as the Zoonosis Control Veterinarian.

The advertisement in JAVMA makes the claims «Heartworm and zoonosis control in a Real - Beef Chewable» and «Heartgard ® Plus harnesses the irresistible power of real beef to make sure dogs get a full dose of heartworm prevention and zoonotic disease treatment and control.»

Their latest warning in June is due to Heartgard claiming zoonosis control (zoonosis is any infectious disease that is transmitted from other animals to humans or from humans to animals).

In addition, the annual quarantine inspection for licensed rabies quarantine facilities is performed by the Department of State Health Services Zoonosis Control personnel.

Not exact matches

May Chu, chief of the diagnostic reference section of the bacterial zoonoses branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Fort Collins, Colorado, deals with Y. pestis on a regular basis.

«I hope that more patient samples will be identified today, but it certainly looks as if an E. coli O104 is the cause of these infections,» says Klaus Stark, head of the division of gastrointestinal infections, zoonoses, and tropical infections at Robert Koch Institute (RKI) here, the German center for disease prevention and control.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

The study will enhance outreach efforts to control and prevent respiratory diseases in backyard poultry, which may also benefit commercial flocks and help reduce zoonoses.

This EAG contributed in particular to the elaboration of research and policy recommendations concerning demographics and tracing / movement of companion animals, surveillance and infection control, risk assessment and diagnosis, prevention and therapy of companion animal zoonoses.

This EAG contributed in particular to the elaboration of recommendations concerning demographics and tracing / movement of companion animals, education and communication on zoonoses potentially transmitted by companion animals, surveillance and infection control and in general policy recommendations.

The EAG VI contributed in particular to the elaboration of research and policy recommendations concerning risk assessment and surveillance and control of companion animal zoonoses.

«We defined through a World Health Organization consultation held in the late 1980s the terms and categories of animals, mostly dogs, in relation to rabies control or elimination, along a continuum from «fully owned» to «strictly feral,» acknowledging that all states in between might exist under certain circumstances,» explained Meslin, who now heads the WHO Department of Food Safety Zoonoses & Food - Borne Diseases.

Epidemiology Team Leader, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

The EAG V contributed in particular to the elaboration of research and policy recommendations concerning demographics and tracing / movement of companion animals, surveillance and infection control, risk assessment and diagnosis, prevention and therapy of companion animal zoonoses.

For each parasitic zoonoses of primary concern, aetiology, animal species involved, mode / s of transmission, prevalence of carriage and / or disease in the relevant companion animal species, impact on human health, current measures for disease prevention and control, as link to agriculture, and main reasons for concerns were detailed.