Translations:Basic Field Epi: Participants' Workbook/81/en
Understanding causes and how they interact can lead to interventions. For anthrax, burning any carcases to ash, properly disposing of soil contaminated with body fluids from the infected animals and vaccinating the entire herd will lower the risk of ongoing infection from spores in the environment. Each of these measures can be thought of as breaking a line on the causal diagram and preventing disease from occurring.