FAZD

Training for early responders in food animal biosecurity

The Challenge

Among the most effective ways to stop or slow the spread of a highly contagious animal disease is to detect it and report it early. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of early responders who are trained to recognize and react to these diseases. Enhanced training programs are needed that can reach these audiences to better prepare them to deal with high consequence animal diseases.

The Solution

The FAZD Center is answering this need by producing a wide range of programs to train early responders – including animal owners, producers, agricultural workers, and Extension agents, specialists and educators – in the best practices of food animal biosecurity. Products include workbooks, compact discs, Power Points, train-the-trainers guidebooks, e-books and webinars.

Training portals

• Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Risk Learning Center ¹

This online risk learning center provides information about risk analysis. It offers 11 modules covering risk assessment, risk management and risk communication, and Train-the-Trainers scenarios for high consequence foreign animal and zoonotic diseases.

All materials are available for download at:  http://fazdrisk101.com/

• Biodefense training for the dairy workforce ²

Modules and workshops designed to aid in educating English- and Spanish-speaking audiences are available online at http://texasdairymatters.org/.

Webinars

• The Online Course in Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Diseases Course for Extension Educators ³ is available online at http://campus.extension.org/.

Workbooks

• Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Diseases Handbook
• General Biosecurity for Livestock and Poultry Producers
• Quick Facts About Foreign and Endemic Animal Diseases ³

Each is available for download as a PDF .

Biosecurity guides

The FAZD Center offers two different series of bilingual industry guides (English and Spanish).

For large scale commodity-specific operators: ³

• Biosecurity for Dairy Producers | English | Spanish
  
• Biosecurity for Sheep and Goat Producers | English | Spanish
  
• Biosecurity for Swine Producers | English | Spanish
  
• Biosecurity for Beef Producers | English | Spanish
  

Each is available for download as a PDF.

For small-scale hobby owners and non-commercial livestock and poultry owners, FAZD Center offers: ⁴

Cattle

• Foreign Animal Diseases of Beef Cattle that May Pose a Major Threat to the U.S. Economy
• Farm Level Biosecurity Practices for Small Beef Cattle Producers

Sheep and goats

• Biosecurity Measures for Meat Goat and Sheep Managers
  
• Major Zoonotic Diseases of Sheep and Meat Goats
• Management Options to Prevent Diseases for Small Dairy Goat Enterprises
• Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Information for Small Dairy Goat Enterprises

Poultry

• Best Biosecurity Practices in Poultry Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Diseases

Swine

• Biosecurity for Swine Producers

Equine

• Best Management Practices to Prevent Diseases in Horses, Ponies, Mules, and Donkeys
• Diseases that Affect Horses, Ponies, Mules, and Donkeys

Principal investigators

• ¹ Tim Goldsmith, University of Minnesota, 612.625.0883, gold0188@umn.edu
• ² Ellen Jordan, Texas AgriLife Extension, 972.952.9212, e-jordan2@tamu.edu
• ³ Floron C. “Buddy” Faries Jr., Texas AgriLife Extension, 979.845.4353, ffaries@tamu.edu
• ⁴ Tom. A. “Andy” Vestal, Texas AgriLife Extension, 979.862.3013, t-vestal@tamu.edu

• FACT SHEET biosecurity training 4.2012