Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 1 - Disease Investigation/218/en

  • the nature of the causal agent (eg toxin, infectious, viral, bacterial, etc)
  • the source of the agent (eg environmental, species jump, introduced animals, endemic infection, etc)
  • the method(s) of transmission (eg direct contact, food-borne, vector-borne, etc)
  • why the incident has occurred (eg change in herd immunity levels, introduction of new disease, change in management practices, etc)
  • risk factors for disease (eg exposure to specific feed components, or potential sources of infection)