Education and Economic Factors Shape Clusters of Biosecurity Beliefs and Practices: Insights from an Exploratory Survey of Midwest U.S. Swine Producers [PDF]
PathogensDespite existing biosecurity frameworks, there is limited empirical evidence on how US swine producers’ beliefs, behaviors, and risk perceptions influence enhanced biosecurity implementation.
Benti D. Gelalcha +7 more
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Animal biosecurity framework development, implementation and evaluation in a veterinary education establishment [PDF]
Veterinary QuarterlyOver the last decades, biosecurity has received increasing attention in veterinary medicine and was recently integrated as a competency for One Health field epidemiology framework by international bodies.
Claude Saegerman +14 more
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Smallholder Farmer's Knowledge and Practice Towards Farm Biosecurity Measures to Prevent Infectious Diseases in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceProper biosecurity practice is crucial in animal farming to reduce the risk of diseases. The aim of this study was to assess smallholder farmers’ knowledge and practice towards farm biosecurity measures and associated factors among smallholder farmers. A
Birhan Agmas Mitiku +2 more
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Biosecurity practices and their determining factors in commercial layer chickens in selected regions of Tanzania [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchIntroduction Biosecurity measures are crucial for controlling infectious diseases in poultry farms. It involves all measures aiming at preventing disease-causing agents from entering the farm (external biosecurity) and those measures practiced with the ...
Siha Mdemu +9 more
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Biosecurity compliance on broiler farms and livestock farmer advisors’ knowledge of biosecurity in Cameroon [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchBackground Biosecurity is a key strategy for reducing poultry diseases and increasing farm productivity and profitability. In Cameroon where infectious diseases represent one of the main constraint in poultry sector, data on on-farm biosecurity ...
Ronald Vougat Ngom +3 more
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Animals, 2022 Limited data are available regarding animal-based biomarkers over time as outcomes of biosecurity in pig farms. The aim of this study was to gain an insight into the biosecurity implementation in a convenience sample of 15 swine herds, and to describe ...
Annalisa Scollo +6 more
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Agricultural biosecurity [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007 The prevention and control of new pest and disease introductions is an agricultural challenge which is attracting growing public interest. This interest is in part driven by an impression that the threat is increasing, but there has been little analysis of the changing rates of biosecurity threat, and existing evidence is equivocal.
J K, Waage, J D, Mumford
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Promoting biosecurity by professionalizing biosecurity
Science, 2020 A credential system could improve policy and ...
Moritz, Rebecca L. +3 more
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Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 2005 A harmonized international regime that enhances biosecurity is needed to reduce the risk of bioterrorism. Like other security regimes, this will entail mutually reinforcing strands, which need to include: enactment of legally binding control of access to dangerous pathogens, transparency for sanctioned biodefense programs, technology transfer and ...
Ronald M, Atlas, Judith, Reppy
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Significance of and outlook for the Biosecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2021 The Biosecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China is the first basic, comprehensive, systematic, and overarching law of biosecurity in China, involving biosecurity risks, national biosecurity governance, and systems for minimizing the biosecurity ...
Liang Huigang +3 more
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