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The Uniform methods and rules are documents by the Veterinary Services office of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) that specify the minimum standards for preventing, detecting, controlling, and/or eradicating a particular animal disease. APHIS in late 2004 had UM&Rs posted on bovine tuberculosis eradication, brucellosis ...
An ear tag usually carries an Animal Identification Number (AIN) or code for the animal, or for its herd or flock. Non electronic ear tags may be simply handwritten for the convenience of the farmer (these are known as "management tags").
A report would include the animal's or group's identification number, the premises identification number where the event took place, the date of the event, and the type of event, as slaughter or a sighting of the animal. In 2004, the U.S. Government asked farmers to use EID or Electronic Identification ear tags on all their cattle.
National Farm Animal Identification and Records (FAIR) is a pilot animal identification program established in 1999 by Holstein Association USA; it has received funding through USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. National FAIR is a national animal identification and traceability system.
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 ...
Scrapie (/ ˈ s k r eɪ p i /) is a fatal, degenerative disease affecting the nervous systems of sheep and goats. [1] It is one of several transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), and as such it is thought to be caused by a prion. [2] [3] Scrapie has been known since at least 1732 and does not appear to be transmissible to humans.
ICTVdb Code [10] Disease name Natural host Prion name PrP isoform Ruminant Non-human mammals; 90.001.0.01.001. Scrapie: Sheep and goats: Scrapie prion PrP Sc: Yes 90.001.0.01.002. Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) Mink: TME prion PrP TME: No 90.001.0.01.003. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) Elk, white-tailed deer, mule deer and red deer: CWD ...
A control flock of Swaledales has been used to study and develop scrapie-resistant sheep. An infectious, persistent, and spontaneous disease, animals infected with scrapie must be quarantined and destroyed. The experimental breeding involved selecting a group of Swaledale sheep with low suspectability to the disease, injecting them with the ...