Translations:DiseaseInvestigation:Course Manual/147/en
- Washing hands with soap, taking bath and washing clothes after handling animals
- Cleaning and disinfecting (spraying, dipping) all goods, particularly vehicles that will enter farm area
- Spraying pens with insecticide, acaricide or disinfectant where indicated
- Disposing and burning medical waste after conducting investigation at the incident site.
- Limiting disease transmission caused by employee mobility and restricting people from freely entering the farm as it may cause disease transmission.
- Burning or burying carcass of livestock that died after suffering from diseases, infectious diseases in particular
- Providing disinfection facilities for staffs/employees
- Removing dead livestock from the pen immediately to be buried or eliminated by the authorized officers
- Carcass of cattle that died suddenly and bloods discharged from the orifices: MUST NOT BE OPENED.
- Separating and managing pens for adult cattle, young cows and calves
- Using a quarantine pen to observe cattle that just arrived or is about to enter a farm
- Practising appropriate husbandry, e.g. Bali cattle cannot be raised with sheep because of the risk of malignant catarrhal fever, a serious disease in Bali cattle.
- Separating sick animals from healthy, rearing species separately, separate age cohorts
- Treating sick animals
- Regular cleaning and manure/litter removal
- Vaccinating animals
- Good husbandry, low stress, good nutrition, clean water