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As an example. Card said that if
he has the money, he can bring
together the Center for Animal
Health and Productivity, New Bol
ton Center expertise, and Penn
State expertise.
“We have the Center for Animal
Health and Productivity, which is a
population medicine group, really
three or four major players.
“We can go to Penn State and
they have extension specialists, a
couple young scientists who are
epidemiologists (study of disease
in a population). So we have out
reach educational capabilities
which they don’t have at New Bol
ton Center.
“So what we want to do is amal
gamate this group,” Card said.
“Kind of screw them together,
with funding. The thing you screw
things together with to make them
work is money.”
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“And in that way, we’ll have a
cadre, as the legislation suggested.
We’ll have a cadre of really good
people that can do a number of
things out there.
“They can investigate, they can
go back and do epidemiological
studies, in the laboratory, popula
tion medicine studies, crunch a lot
of numbers, or they can go out
there and take something like this
Johne’s and use it as an education
al tool and tell people, if your gon
na have a herd that has infection,
you should doing these things:
one. two, three ...”
Another area of bringing the
entire program together, is to try to
develop focus for the research.
One of the things Card did after
taking over the job of developing
PADLS two years ago. was to cre
ate committees to take responsibil
ity for getting things coordinated.
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each lab. Card said, “They kind of
nm the laboratories.
“I have a research committee,
and we are working on our
approach on how we should try to
get more money for research and
how we should coordinate our
research.
“If you got five mastitis projects
between the two universities,
you’d like to have those mastitis
projects coordinated in some man
ner, so you’d have maybe three
major objectives up here that your
working toward.
“We’re trying to coordinated
research efforts so that we try to
satisfy a few major goals and get
something done, instead of every
body having a little pea-shooter (at
a majory problem),” he said.
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“On the field side, we need to be
able to go out and do these same
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things, but to come back with the
disease surviellance lets say,
would tell us what some of major
problems are.
“We don’t know what the major
problems are. We assume Johne’s
because we see a lot of it, but may
be it’s not. Maybe economically
it’s not that big of a deal" Card
said. “We don’t know that, but
that’s what the Center for Animal
Health and Productivity might tell
us.”
Another committee which was
appointed by the Animal Health
Commission is a Field Investiga
tion Advisory Committee.
For the first time, members of
different agencies all concerned
with aspects of health and/or ani
mal productivity are sitting on the
same committee.
“On the field investigation
advisory committee... we lave (a
representative from ) public
health, a person from Game Com
mission. and a person from DER,
so we covered the major agencies.
“So. if we do have a toxic waste
problem let’s say bad water,
whatever it might be, to get into the
area of toxicology, we can discuss
how we go about this, and we
should be able to identify or have
identified already some diagnosti
ticians within our system who can
respond to a problem that has
water, mycobacteria lets’s say,
toxic materials ... “We can do
that, we just haven’t quite identi
fied all those teams yet, but that’s
what we’re trying to do, so that
when you come to a rabies (inci
dent), you know that there’s a cer
tain responsibility for a PAI lets
say.
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“We provide any kind of help in
the accumulation or accession of
animals that may have contributed
to a human exposure and try to take
them in." Card said. “If they’re
dead, we take tissues, if they’re not
dead, we may euthanize them and
take th appropriate tissues and they
go to public health, to the Lion ville
Lab, where most of the rabies
cases are handled.
“We (Summerdale lab) do some
rabies culturing ourselves, we do
that mainly because it may be more
appropriate to do it quickly here,
than to send it to Lionville.
“So, we work with those people
and we’re trying to get a more
cooperative activity going on
between our diagnostic system and
our laboratory.”
One of the main elements in
developing a cooperative relation
ship is communications. A courier
system is being used now. sup
ported by the PDA, to help with
speed and efficiencies in address
ing health matters.
“We provide a courier system,
its available throughout the state
on a commercial basis. Within the
three laboratories. (PADLS pays)
for the transportation of tissues and
that sort of thing,” Card said.
“So, if a person can get some
thing into a laboratory, and they
need to get it to Tony Castro, at
Penn State, the virologist in the
system, they simply put it on a
courier at New Bolton Center and
it gets to Penn State that day,” Card
explained.
He said he uses a private con
tractor for the service.
Other things are happening.
“We have a speciality area in veterinary
toxicology developing in New Bolton Cen
ter,” Card said.
“We’ve hired a toxicologist, he’s a very
good young man. Hopefully, he’s going to
provide an awful lot of help to our program
because of hit background and knowledge.
He comes from Michigan State. His name is
Dr. Bob Poppenga. And we’re developing,
renovating facilities right now and we're buy
ing up equipment and so forth as fast as we
can pull it together, because he’s a vastly
important person in our system.”
As an example of why such a specialist is
needed. Card explained about a real incident.
“We had a call, from Meadvillc. In this
case, the county extension specialist and the
vet were concerned about a toxic problem,
and so we bring samples as quickly as we can
to Penn State and courier them to Bob
Poppenga.
“In that way, we have a«peciality area at
New Bolton Center in toxicology, we have a
specialty area in virology at Penn State.”
Card said the program actually includes
two specialty areas in food safety “an E.
Coli reference center at Penn State that’s
internationally recognized, it’s been there for
a long time and it’s used by a large number of
agencies around the country to identify dif
femt strains of E. Coli.(Dr. Dick Wilson runs
it) and at the same time at New Bolton Center,
we have a similar facility Chuck Benson runs.
That’s a salmonella reference lab. We can do
some very sophisticated identification of sal
monella species.
“And in fact. New Bolton Center, Summer
dale and Penn State are working on the sal-
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