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Leading the response to notifiable disease
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.163.20.586
Subject(s) - outbreak , session (web analytics) , notifiable disease , foot and mouth disease , disease , government (linguistics) , disease control , medicine , event (particle physics) , family medicine , political science , virology , veterinary medicine , business , pathology , advertising , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
In the event of an outbreak of notifiable disease, it is imperative that there is a quick and effective response. A session at the bva Congress organised by the Association of Government Veterinarians discussed how preparations for, and the response to, outbreaks of disease have changed since the foot‐and‐mouth disease ( fmd ) epidemic of 2001. The Lessons to be Learned Inquiry into that epidemic identified nine lessons for disease control and, at the congress session, three speakers discussed how these have been applied.