Translations:Manuals:Priority disease investigation/13/en
What data should be collected during an important disease investigation?
- Population
- How many animals in the village?
- How many affected (sick, dead, slaughtered, at risk)?
- What do they look like?
- Clinical signs
- Risk factors
- Have the sick animals been vaccinated for any diseases (helps with the differential)?
- Is it zoonotic?
- Human involvement
- Where did it come from?
- Source of the infection to take action there as well
- Tests
- Rapid test results or details of samples sent to the lab
- Diagnosis
- Definitive diagnosis (from field observations with or without evidence from tests)
- Monitoring and resolution
- Are control activities working? Is the problem continuing or resolved?