Heightened Biosecurity Visitor Sign-in Form Date Time in Time out Visitor’s Name Cell Phone Number Company Name Vehicle and License Plate # Reason for visit How recently have you had contact with livestock? What foreign country have you visited within the past week? Have you visited area of concern within the past week?
Animal Health Record Form Animal #:_________________________________________ Cattle Lot #:_______________________________________ Pen #:_____________________ Number of Head: ___________ Date Animal ID # Diagnosis/Treatment/Procedure Product & Manufacturer Lot #/Serial # Dose Route of Administration Injection Location Earliest WD Date Initials of Treatment Administrator
Pesticide Use Record Business Name ________________________ Address ___________________________________ Application Date Time Started Name of the person who applied treatment Location of Land Treated Site Treated At time of treatment Wind Direction Wind Velocity Air Temp Product Trade Name EPA Registration # Target Pest Rate of Product Per Unit Equipment ID # Spray Permit # Licensed Applicator’s Name & License # Unlicensed Applicator’s Name (If applicable) Total Acres or Volume of Acres Treated Total Volume of Spray Mix, Dust, Granules or other Materials Applied Per Unit Additional Information
++ highly effective + effective ± limited or variable – no activity (a) formaldehyde is sporicidal, glutaraldehyde is not. (b) hydrogen peroxide combined with peracetic acid, strong oxidizing agents, is sporicidal (c) varies with composition of disinfectant Adapted from NAHEMS Operational Guidelines: Cleaning and Disinfection, November 2011.
Annex A: Disease Table Disease / Pathogen Zoonotic Potential TAHC Reportable* OIE Reportable Mode of Transmission** Endemic Areas*** Type Sanitary prophylaxis Medical prophylaxis Aerosol Direct Contact Fomite Oral Vector Environmental United States Canada Mexico Anthrax Y Y Y M S S S S L Y 2010 Bacterial Spore Decontamination of contaminated tissues, surfaces, and environments is difficult. Vaccine; Antibiotics effective, but course of disease usually to quick Aujeszky's disease (Pseudorabies) N Y Y S M S M S L N L Enveloped Prevent Pig population from interacting with cattle Bluetongue (EHD) N Y S M Y 1988 2010 Virus No efficient treatment; insect control Vaccine Bovine babesiosis Tick Fever, Cattle Fever, Texas Fever, Piroplasmosis, Redwater Y Y Y M 1943 N L Protozoan Reducing exposure of cattle to ticks Vaccine Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Y Y Y M Y 2011 N Prion Do not use feed containing ruminant derived proteins; Decontamination of tissues, surfaces, and environments is difficult is no treatment for BSE
Bovine tuberculosis Y Y Y M S L ? L Acid-fast bacteria Treatment of infected animals is rarely attempted because of the high cost, lengthy time and the larger goal of eliminating the disease Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) N Y M M S Y Y L Virus Control is achieved with a combination of removal of infected cattle, vaccination, and enhanced biosecurity Vaccination should be used to decrease clinical disease and to reduce the risk of viral shedding within and between groups of stocker or feeder cattle Brucellosis (Brucella abortus) Y Y Y S S M L L L Vegetative bacteria Surveillance; Vaccine only in endemic areas Campylobacter jejuni Y Y M M L ? Vegetative bacteria Campylobacter species are susceptible to many disinfectants No vaccine; Treatment is often limited to fluid and electrolyte replacement therapy; Antibiotics are occasionally given Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) N Y Y M S 1892 N N Vegetative bacteria Quarantine, test, slaughter; CBPP bacteria do not survive for long in the environment and are inactivated by most common disinfectants. Vaccine only in endemic areas Crimean haemorrhagic fever Y Y S M N N N Enveloped Virus Prevention depends on avoiding bites from infected ticks and contact with infected blood or tissues. None
contacts, euthanasia of infected and exposed animals, and cleaning and disinfection of the premises. P. multocida is susceptible to most common disinfectants, as well as to mild heat (55°C/131°F). Heartwater N Y Y S M N N N Vegetative bacteria Control tick population Tetracycline antibiotics are only effective if given EARLY in the course of the disease, by day 2 or 3 after fever appears and before nervous signs Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis (IBR, Red Nose) N Y M M Y Y L Virus Management practices designed to reduce stress, isolate infected animals, and provide adequate food and will limit disease transmission and severity Vaccination prior to movement, commingling and exposure to infected cattle can be effective to prevent disease disease (Paratuberculosis) ? Y S S M Y Y L Acid-fast bacteria Screening tests for new animals to identify and eliminate infected animals and ongoing surveillance of adult animals There is no known treatment for the disease Listeria Y S S M Vegetative bacteria Feeding good quality silage with a low pH; Rodents should be controlled. Can be treated with a variety of antibiotics Lumpy skin disease N Y Y M N N N Enveloped Virus Virus can survive for up to 35 days in desiccated scabs and for at least 18 days in air-dried hides. Vaccine and antibiotics
New world screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) Y Y Y M 1982 N 2001 Parasitic Fly Spraying or dipping with insecticides Subcutaneous injections of ivermectin and related compounds; treatment with larvacides Old world screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana) Y Y Y M N N Parasitic Fly Spraying or dipping with insecticides Subcutaneous injections of ivermectin and related compounds; treatment with larvacides Q fever Y Y M M S S Y Y N Vegetative bacteria Prevent contact with wild animals; Control tick population Vaccine only in endemic Rabies Y Y M Y Y L Enveloped Prevent interaction with wild animals Vaccine not routine for cattle Rift Valley Y Y Y M N N N Enveloped Virus Surveillance and vector control Vaccine only in endemic areas Rinderpest N Y Y M N N N Enveloped Virus Virus is inactivated rapidly in the environment, and decontamination is not difficult Vaccine Salmonella spp. Y S M S Y Y Vegetative bacteria Can be treated with a variety of antibiotics Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) N Y Y M N N N Protozoan Quarantines, movement control, and solation or slaughter; Trypanosomes cannot survive for long periods outside the host; controlling arthropod vectors is Vaccination and antiparasitics in endemic areas Theileriosis (East Coast Fever) N Y Y M N N N Protozoan Controlling tick population Vaccines and antiparasitic drugs available; Treatment is most effective in the early stages of the disease Trypanosomosis N Y Y S M N N N Protozoan Quarantines, movement control, and solation or slaughter; Antiparasitics in endemic areas
Trypanosomes cannot survive for long periods outside the host; controlling arthropod vectors is Tularemia Y Y M M S L ? N Vegetative bacteria F. tularensis can survive for long periods in the environment. Good tick control programs can reduce the risk of infection. Tularemia can be treated with various antibiotics including tetracyclines and quinolones. Vesicular stomatitis Y Y Y M M Y 1949 Enveloped Quarantine and movement control; uninfected livestock should kept away from any animals that could be infected Treatment is symptomatic. Animals with mouth lesions should be provided with softened feed. West Nile fever Y Y M Y Y Enveloped Virus Implement mosquito control measures No specific treatment, other than supportive care, is available. *This list is not comprehensive. Certain zoonotic diseases (those with the ability to cause illness in both animals and people) are also reportable to the Texas Department of State Health Services **M – Major source of organism; S – Secondary source of organism ***Y- disease present, L – Disease limited to one or more zones,? - suspected but not confirmed, N - never reported and under active surveillance; date indicates last reported case (Data obtained from 2012 annual reports to OIE) Disease information was compiled from the Technical Disease Fact Sheets on The Center for Food Security and Public Health .