Animal health group baeks stronger disease controls
RICHMOND, VA - The U.S.
Animal Health Association
(USAHA) concluded its 1985
meeting in Milwaukee, with a
number of recommendations
aimed at improving the health of
the nation’s livestock and poultry,
according to Dr. Norman Kruse of
Lincoln, NE.
Kruse, who is the State
Veterinarian in Nebraska, suc
ceeds Dr. David U. Walker of
Montpelier, VI, as president of the
organization. President-elect is
Dr. John F. Hudelson of Denver,
CO.
Others elected to office at
USAHA’s 89th annual meeting
were; Dr. John Cobb of Atlanta,
GA, Ist vice president; Phil E.
Bradshaw of Griggisville, IL, 2nd
vice president; Dr. Max Van
Bushirk of Harrisburg, PA, 3rd
vice president; and Dr. John Shock
of Annapolis, MD, executive
secretary-treasurer.
Kruse called on USAHA mem
bers to take positive steps to
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evaluate disease program for the
future. “I feel it is high time that
we eradicate brucellosis,” he said.
“We cannot accomplish this goal
unless state and federal regulatory
personnel and industry all pull
together. We must change our
attitudes and think positively.”
USAHA represents all 50 states,
seven foreign countries and 18
allied groups serving health,
technical and consumer markets.
The organization has 28 working
committees with various diseases
affecting major domestic livestock
and poultry.
“USAHA is recognized as the
official voice of the livestock and
poultry industries in recom
mending changes to state and
federal animal health
regulations,” Kruse said. Among
its 1985 recommendations,
USAHA:.
Called for increasing in
demnity for brucellosis to provide
incentive for depopulation of in
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incidence of the disease. Highest
indemnity levels would be paid for
introduced outbreaks in Free
states, with progressively lower
levels in Class A, B and C states.
To resolve a long-standing con
troversy with regard to vaccinated
heifers from quarantined herds,
USAHA proposed regulations
allowing movement of such heifers
from Class B and C states until
Oct. 1, 1988. After that date,
movement of such heifers from
Class B states would be terminated
and all cattle movements from
Class states would be stopped,
except for steers, spayed heifers,
S-branded cattle or cattle from
certified free herds.
Called for USDA to intensify
epidemiological studies and
research on vesicular stomatitis,
with particular emphasis on
identifying the reservoirs of the
disease and the means by which it
spreads. Cyclic outbreaks of this
disease, whose outward signs are
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mouth disease, have become more
frequent in recent years.
Asked USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service to
sponsor a symposium on the in
ternational movement of embryos.
USAHA noted that because the
number of embryos in in
ternational trade is growing very
rapidly, there is a need for the
exchange of information on
current research data and its
implications.
Called for all Mexican cattle
to be quarantined and tested for
tuberculosis at their point of entry
into the United States.
Noting a recent extensive
outbreak of tuberculosis in bison,
called for handling the disease in
these animals the same as for
cattle under the tuberculosis
eradication program.
Called for testing all
wildebeest for malignant catarrhal
fever, a foreign animal disease.
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their farming operation from the
field into the greenhouse, ac
cording to Doyle W. Grenoble,
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sylvania State University’s
Department of Horticulture.
At the same time, says Penn
State’s extension fruit tree
specialist Robert Crassweller,
fruit growers are facing new op
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controversial growth regulators
used for tree fruits.
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dustry as well as developments
with fruit tree growth regulators
will be addressed at the upcoming
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days, January 28-30, specialists
from Penn State, industry
representatives, growers and
other university specialists will
offer workshops on the latest
developments and research into
the growing and marketing of
fruits and vegetables.
More than 1,000 growers from
the Northeast are expected to
attend the conferences, as well as
industry representatives who will
be sponsoring a trade show.
Registration is through either the
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers
Association or the State Hor
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sylvania.
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with movement restrictions placed
on animals that react to the test.
Asked USDA to develop a
model regulation for states to use
in the control of livestock and
poultry diseases in zoo animals,
which can be infected with many
diseases and parasites that cause
serious problems in domestic
livestock and poultry and native
wildlife. US AHA pointed out that
commercial trade in zoo animals is
often carried out among private
parties or through auctions or
consignment sales without
adequate precaution against the
spread of disease. The association
said that surrent disease control
regulations on movement of zoo
animals “are inconsistent,
inadequate and, too often, non
existent.”
Recognized that a new strain
of bluetongue was now in the
United States and asked that
surveillance programs be
established to monitor the spread
and assess the economic impact of
the new strain. USAHA also called
for additional research to develop
safe and effective vaccines against
bluetongue.
fruit growers