Emerging and exotic diseases of animals
By: edited by Anna Rovid Spickler & James A. Roth
Contributors: Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics
Edition: 3rd ed., 3rd printing.
Publisher: Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics, Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780974552552
Subjects: Communicable diseases in animals; Domestic animals; Diseases; Veterinary epidemiology; Veterinary emergencies; Epidemics; Animal Diseases; Epidemiology; Transmission; Domestic Animals; Wild Animals; Communicable Diseases
Notes: Cover title.

"Materials for this book are derived from an Internet-based course entitled Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) which was originally developed with funding from the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) Higher Education Challenge Grants program (grant number 00384119278). Faculty from three colleges of veterinary medicine ... worked to design the Internet-based course (Iowa State University ... ; University of California, Davis ... ; and the University of Georgia ...)"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreign animal diseases and the consequences of their introduction; title: Routes of transmission and the introduction of foreign animal diseases; title: Response to a foreign animal disease outbreak, and the agencies involved; title: Veterinarian's role in an animal health emergency; title: Descriptions of recent incursions of exotic diseases; title: Fact Sheets for emerging and exotic diseases of animals; title: Images of emerging and exotic diseases of animals.