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Control centres management documents
• National control centre
• (Regional or provincial control centre)
• Local (field) control centre
• Principles of control centre management: Sections and their function Chain of responsibility Lines of communication Role descriptions Job cards Resource management (labour, equipment, stores, finance)
• Information management: Disease information Office systems Public and internal information
• Legislation
• Movement control
• Industry cooperation (producer, processor, transport, wholesale, retail)
• Training programmes, schedules and methods
• Skills registers
• Administration procedures
Operational procedures documents
• Valuation and compensation
• Destruction of animals
• Disposal of products, materials and wastes
• Decontamination Vaccination
• Movement control and security
• Vector control Mapping
• Public relations and the media
• Wildlife control
• Communications technology
Risk enterprise documents
• Abattoirs
• Milk processors
• Feedlots
The manual should provide all details of the methods selected to control each disease beginning with information on the disease itself.
Nature of the disease
• Aetiology, clinical signs
• Susceptible species
• Diagnostic criteria
• Resistance and immunity
• Epidemiology:
Incubation period
Modes of transmission
Factors influencing transmission and persistence of agent in:
-vectors live animals (recovered and unapparent cases)
-carcasses (death from infection and slaughtered)
-environment, vehicles, containers
-products, by-products, waste (raw and processed)
-effects of decomposition
-disinfectants
-special considerations
Principles of control
• Methods to prevent spread
• Methods to eliminate pathogen
• Slaughter and disposal of animals
Lists of names, addresses, contact points and/or telephone numbers of all those persons who may be required to help impose movement control may include:
• Local and area police
• Livestock officers
• Animal sellers or agents
• Animal product plants (abattoirs, milk factories and egg stores, etc.)
• Municipal or village authorities
• Transport companies
• National border control authorities
• Leaders of farmers cooperatives or groups
Copies of relevant legislation should include:
• the statutes (acts) that provide veterinary officers with legal authority for disease control and related activities (especially emergency powers)
• subordinate and supporting regulations
• multiple copies of all those forms required to give legal authority to a field officer's instructions to restrict movement
• particular quarantines of animals, farms, enterprises, stockyards and areas, etc.