"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 ...)."--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreign animal diseases and the consequences of their introduction -- Routes of transmission and the introduction of foreign animal diseases -- Response to a foreign animal disease outbreak, and the agencies involved -- Veterinarian's role in an animal health emergency -- Descriptions of recent incursions of exotic diseases -- Fact Sheets for emerging and exotic diseases of animals -- Images of emerging and exotic diseases of animals.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.