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Basic Field Epidemiology
Session 2 – Overview of Epidemiology
Recorded PowerPoint file
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In Session 2 we will explore:
• The main roles of para-vets
• What is epidemiology
• Why epidemiology can be useful to para-vets
• The importance of both veterinary clinical skills and
field epidemiology skills in animal health
• How epidemiological skills can help prevent zoonosis,
as an example
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Field Epidemiology helps
• Understand causes of disease in animal
populations (groups of animals)
– Can explain why disease is occurring even when
you don’t know what the disease is
• Provide better disease treatment and
prevention advice to farmers
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• iSIKHNAS = Indonesia’s new animal health
information system.
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Budi’s place
• Sick calf
• Abscess at navel
• Pak Paimin
– Examine calf
– Drain abscess
– Treat
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Budi’s place
• Sick calf – navel abscess
• Knowledge of the epidemiology of navel abscesses in calves
• Allows para-vets to provide best advice on
– Treatments
– Prevention in other healthy calves
• Provide a clean, dry calving environment,
• Make sure each calf gets a good drink of milk in first 6 hours after birth
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Field Epidemiology can help answer
question like:
• Why has anthrax occurred at this place and time
and in these animals?
• Anthrax - How can I stop animals?
• I don’t know what it is? How can I stop animals
dying and more becoming sick?
• Why, during the rainy season, do my cows get
diarrhoea 3 weeks after my neighbours cattle are
sick?
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Nipah virus
rabies
Zoonoses
• rabies, brucellosis, Q fever, leptospirosis,
psittacosis, Nipah virus
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• Epidemiology is the study of the patterns and
causes of disease in populations
• Field Epidemiology skills will help understand
the causes of disease at the population level,
and this will help explain why diseases are
occurring
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Para-vets need to be able to:
• recognise sick animals (clinical veterinary
skills)
AND
• have well developed field epidemiology skills
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One sick animal
(examination,
diagnosis,
treatment)
Advice on future
prevention of
disease in that
one animal
Advice on early
detection &
prevention in
other animals on Animals on
other farms
the same farm
Large disease
outbreaks &
zoonotic risks to
human health
Veterinary
clinical
skills
Epidemiology
skills
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Session 2 - Summary
• Epidemiology is the study of the patterns and causes of disease
in populations.
• Field epidemiology means applying epidemiology skills in the
field - on farms and in day-to-day work to address real
problems for farmers
• Para-vets need veterinary clinical skills & field epidemiology
skills.
• Field epidemiology training will help para-veterinarians to:
– understand causes of disease & use this knowledge to:
• explain why diseases are occurring
• and provide better advice to farmers on disease treatment and prevention
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