State Exam

Contagious diseases, protection of the environment and veterinary legislation

Academic year 2021-2022

Topics

1. Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Activation of disinfectants.

2. Brucelloses, differential diagnostics of abortions, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of

a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases Biothermic treatment of manure (composting).

3. Anthrax, tetanus, botulism and other anaerobic infections, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of

a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Conditions for the use of formaldehyde for disinfection with regard to protection of human and animal health.

4. Salmonelloses of animals, salmonelloses in poultry, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Physical disinfection.

5. Campylobacterioses, yersinioses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Disinfection in food production.

6. Borellioses and other vector-borne infections, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Ticks, their life cycle and control.

7. Mycoplasmoses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Aerosol disinfection.

8. Q fever and other rickettsioses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Treatment and disinfection of soil and pastures.

9. Chlamydioses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Hygiene measures to reduce airborne diseases.

10. Listeriosis and bacterial encephalitis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the event of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Microbiological control of disinfection efficiency.

11. Leptospirosis and other spirochetosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Stages of rodent control.

12. Mycoses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. The use of acids for environmental disinfection.

13. Foot and mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis complex, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. The use of sodium hydroxide for environmental disinfection.

14. Aujeszky´s disease and other swine notifiable diseases (PRRS, TGE, Nipah), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Measures to reduce the biological risk of zoonoses transmission.

15. Classical swine fever and African swine fever, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Principles of biosecurity on farms.

16. Transmissive encephalopathy (BSE, scrapie and others), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Conditions for processing carcasses in a veterinary sanitation facility.

17. Influenza (avian and other animals), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Conditions for the transport of animal carcasses.

18. Rabies, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Prevention of secondary poisoning at rodent control.

19. Viral encephalitis, (tick encephalitis, west Nile encephalitis, equine encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis and other notifiable diseases) prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Mosquitoes, their life cycle and control.

20. Bluetongue and other sheep notifiable disease (peste des petits ruminants, maedi-visna, nairobi), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Importance of preventative insect control aimed at limiting insect-borne diseases.

21. Rinderpest and other bovine notifiable diseases (BVDV, EBL, IBR/IPV), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of disposal of animal carcasses.

22. African horse sickness and other equine notifiable diseases (infectious equine anaemia, herpesvirus infection, infectious equine arteritis), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of insect control.

23. Poxviral infections, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Main groups of insecticides.

24. Haemorrhagic fevers, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Acute rodenticides and their use.

25. Avian notifiable diseases (Newcastle disease, IBD, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotracheitis, viral hepatitis in geese and others), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Biosecurity measures in bird breeding.

26. Notifiable diseases in lagomorphs (tularemia, myxomatosis, haemorrhagic diseseas in rabbit), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Advantages and disadvantages of using acute and chronic rodenticides.

27. Notifiable diseases in bees, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of treatment and disposal of beehives.

28. Notifiable diseases in fish, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Use of lime in sanitation of the environment.

29. Trichinellosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Chronic rodenticides and conditions of their use.

30. Echinococcosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Preventive measures against parasitic infections.

31. Cysticercosis of cattle and swine, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Removal of pathogens in the process of wastewater and sludge treatment.

32. Anisakidosis, Toxocarosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Treatment and disinfection of infected excrements.

33. Toxoplasmosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Protection and treatment of sandpits – at children playgrounds.

34. Cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of water treatment and disinfection.

35. Trypanosomosis of cattle, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Classification of insecticides.

36. Bovine babesiosis and theileriosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Development of insecticide resistance.

37. Trichomonosis of cattle, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Principles of personal hygiene in the prevention of infectious diseases.

38. Scabies and myiasis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. The use of pyrethroids for insect control.

39. Leishmaniosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Development of resistance to rodenticides.

The condition for completing the course is participation in lectures and practical exercises (100%) according to the study regulations, submission of protocols from practical exercises and successful completion of the final test.

By completing the course the student will gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of environmental protection (water, air, soil) from the perspective of a veterinarian. They will acquire knowledge in the field of preventive sanitation measures and focal disinfection when interrupting the infection cycle in an outbreak. They will get acquainted with the procedures of cleaning, physical and chemical disinfection, disinsection and deratization in animal husbandry and food production areas. He will gain knowledge from the evaluation of the quality of water resources and their protection. Knowledge of processing and utilization of organic waste from animal and food production. Preparation for the final state exam in the subject Contagious diseases of animals, protection of the environment and public health and veterinary legislation.

Preventive sanitation measures in livestock breeding and current focal disinfection. Procedures of current sanitation measures in the spread of viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases in terms of environmental protection and human and animal health.

Sanitation of breeding environment and food production. Disinfection, disinsection and deratization in relation to the environment.

Evaluation of air hygiene in animal husbandry and their impact on the environment. Protection of water resources from pollution in animal husbandry. Evaluation of water resources quality. Hygienic aspects of the use of organic waste in terms of their application to the soil, evaluation of their environmental impact. Wastewater treatment before discharge into the environment, evaluation of treatment efficiency. Soil hygiene and its protection against the negative effects associated with animal husbandry.

Lectures

1. Sanitation of the environment and its importance. Preventive sanitation measures and focal sanitation in interruption of infectious cycle. Sanitation methods and means (physical and chemical). Disinfection as a part of sanitation of the environment. Types, ways, methods of sanitation in relation to objects of veterinary disinfection. Public health issues.

2. Disinfection, types and stages of disinfection. The groups of chemical disinfectants, modes of action. Factor affecting the effectiveness of chemical disinfection. Characteristics of relevant disinfectant substances and their using. Environmental and public health concerns related to the use of chemical disinfectants.

3. Sanitation in the production of food of animal origin. Sources of food contamination. Specificities of sanitation in meat, poultry, dairy industry and seafoods. Physical disinfection.

4. Air hygiene. Chemical and biological pollution of the atmosphere. Sources of air contamination. Hygienic importance of gases, dustiness and microbiological contamination in animal production. Airborne diseases, prevention of their spreading.

5. Water hygiene. Importance of water quality in relation to animal production and public health. Hygienic requirements on quality of drinking water from the chemical point of view. Water sources and their protection. Requirements on microbiological quality of drinking water. Waterborne diseases and prevention of their spreading. Disinfection of water.

6. Insect control. Biology of harmful insects. Ways of insect control. Characteristics of chemical insect control preparations. Resistance of insects to insecticides.

7. Waste water, its production, categorization. Waste water treatment and its importance for public health.

8. Protection of the farm and environment. Sanitation measures in the focus of infection. Disinfection, rat and insect control.

9. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at air-borne diseases. Control measures in case of disease outbreak.

10. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at water-borne diseases. Control measures in case of disease outbreak.

11. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at vector-borne diseases. Control measures in case of disease outbreak.

12. Sanitation measures in contagious diseases of animals.

13. Protection of environment in case of contagious diseases of animals.

Practicals

1. Main groups of disinfectants and their important characteristics. Determination of the active ingredient concentration in disinfectant working solutions. Evaluation of chemical disinfection efficiency.

2. Chemical and microbiological control of disinfection efficiency. Preparation of working solutions. Swabbing and swabs handling for microbiological control of disinfection efficiency.

3. Performing disinfection by spraying in practical conditions.

4. Sampling of air, examination of air samples, gases and microbial contaminants in practical conditions, evaluation of results. Aerosol disinfection in case of airborne infectious diseases.

5. Physical, chemical and microbiological examination of drinking water. Qualitative and quantitative determination of monitored parameters.

6. Rodent control, biology of harmful rodents. Types, forms and stages of rodent control. Rodenticides, characteristics of active ingredients. Health protection during the work with rodenticides. Demonstration of rat control in practical conditions. Insect control preparations.

7. Excrements of farm animals, their handling and storage. Disposal of animal excrements from the point of view of environmental protection and spreading of diseases. Properties of soil in relation to survival of pathogens and environmental pollution.

Credit test.

8. Protection of the farm, measures in the focus of infection. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at bacterial diseases.

9. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at bacterial diseases.

10. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at viral diseases.

11. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at viral diseases.

12. Sanitation measures and focal disinfection at parasitic diseases.

13. Contagious diseases of animals. Protection of environment.

State Exam Topics

1. Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Activation of disinfectants.

2. Brucelloses, differential diagnostics of abortions, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of

a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases Biothermic treatment of manure (composting).

3. Anthrax, tetanus, botulism and other anaerobic infections, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of

a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Conditions for the use of formaldehyde for disinfection with regard to protection of human and animal health.

4. Salmonelloses of animals, salmonelloses in poultry, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Physical disinfection.

5. Campylobacterioses, yersinioses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Disinfection in food production.

6. Borellioses and other vector-borne infections, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Ticks, their life cycle and control.

7. Mycoplasmoses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Aerosol disinfection.

8. Q fever and other rickettsioses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Treatment and disinfection of soil and pastures.

9. Chlamydioses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Hygiene measures to reduce airborne diseases.

10. Listeriosis and bacterial encephalitis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the event of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Microbiological control of disinfection efficiency.

11. Leptospirosis and other spirochetosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Stages of rodent control.

12. Mycoses, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. The use of acids for environmental disinfection.

13. Foot and mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis complex, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. The use of sodium hydroxide for environmental disinfection.

14. Aujeszky´s disease and other swine notifiable diseases (PRRS, TGE, Nipah), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Measures to reduce the biological risk of zoonoses transmission.

15. Classical swine fever and African swine fever, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Principles of biosecurity on farms.

16. Transmissive encephalopathy (BSE, scrapie and others), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Conditions for processing carcasses in a veterinary sanitation facility.

17. Influenza (avian and other animals), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Conditions for the transport of animal carcasses.

18. Rabies, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Prevention of secondary poisoning at rodent control.

19. Viral encephalitis, (tick encephalitis, west Nile encephalitis, equine encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis and other notifiable diseases) prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Mosquitoes, their life cycle and control.

20. Bluetongue and other sheep notifiable disease (peste des petits ruminants, maedi-visna, nairobi), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Importance of preventative insect control aimed at limiting insect-borne diseases.

21. Rinderpest and other bovine notifiable diseases (BVDV, EBL, IBR/IPV), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of disposal of animal carcasses.

22. African horse sickness and other equine notifiable diseases (infectious equine anaemia, herpesvirus infection, infectious equine arteritis), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of insect control.

23. Poxviral infections, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Main groups of insecticides.

24. Haemorrhagic fevers, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Acute rodenticides and their use.

25. Avian notifiable diseases (Newcastle disease, IBD, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotracheitis, viral hepatitis in geese and others), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Biosecurity measures in bird breeding.

26. Notifiable diseases in lagomorphs (tularemia, myxomatosis, haemorrhagic diseseas in rabbit), prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Advantages and disadvantages of using acute and chronic rodenticides.

27. Notifiable diseases in bees, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of treatment and disposal of beehives.

28. Notifiable diseases in fish, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Use of lime in sanitation of the environment.

29. Trichinellosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Chronic rodenticides and conditions of their use.

30. Echinococcosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Preventive measures against parasitic infections.

31. Cysticercosis of cattle and swine, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned disease, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Removal of pathogens in the process of wastewater and sludge treatment.

32. Anisakidosis, toxocarosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Treatment and disinfection of infected excrements.

33. Toxoplasmosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Protection and treatment of sandpits – at children playgrounds.

34. Cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Methods of water treatment and disinfection.

35. Trypanosomosis of cattle, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Classification of insecticides.

36. Bovine babesiosis and theileriosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. Development of insecticide resistance.

37. Trichomonosis of cattle, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Principles of personal hygiene in the prevention of infectious diseases.

38. Scabies and myiasis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned diseases. The use of pyrethroids for insect control.

39. Leishmaniosis, prevention and control, public health risk assessment. Current epizootological situation.

a) Procedures followed by state administration bodies in the veterinary field in connection with the prevention and control of the aforementioned diseases, measures taken in the case of a disease suspicion and outbreak. Legislation in effect.

b) Current sanitation measures and focal disinfection at the aforementioned disease. Development of resistance to rodenticides.

Sasáková, N., Vargová, M., Gregová, G. Protection of the environment and public health. Košice, 2014.

Study materials prepared for state exam on the department

Content prerequisite:

Epizootology, Parasitology

Continuous assessment:

Credit test in write form or on platform Moodle.

Conditions for completion of course:

The condition for completing the course is participation in lectures and practical exercises (100%) according to the study regulations, submission of protocols from practical exercises and successful completion of the final test.

Final assessment:

Credit test