TV3102:03
Animal Disease and Control
| Townsville | HECS Band 3 |
30 hours lectures, 6 hours tutorials, 6 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Available to students enrolled in the BAnimSc program and other students as approved by the subject coordinator/academic adviser.
Staff: Dr G Burgess.
This subject will provide a broad outline of the aetiology and control of the major diseases of livestock, wildlife animals and farmed fish and prawns. The main topics to be covered include: clinical examination and signs of disease of farm animals and wildlife; recognition of organ system dysfunction; the principal causes of disease in different management systems; an overview of the relationship between wildlife and feral animals and the transmission of infectious disease including exotic diseases of livestock.
Learning Objectives:
- develop the skills to recognise illness in animals and to undertake a basic clinical examination of animals;
- appreciate the influence of management practice on the diseases of animals and their control;
- understand the aetiology and principles of control of the major diseases of livestock, wildlife animals, fish and prawns;
- appreciate the role of feral and wildlife animals in the transmission of infectious diseases of livestock.
Assessment by practical attendance and written report (20%); written assignment (2,500 words) (20%); written examination (60%).