Disease Prevention Through Biosecurity

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Dr Hanamapure
Karnataka India

There is an awful lot of misunderstanding across the world on biosecurity. Especially what products to use and how to use them. This includes the application. I have been spending a lot of time recently educating on effective biosecurity and exploding some of the myths talked about programmes and products. As the great Joseph Lister quoted "The germ is nothing. The circumstances are everything". Biosecurity for all species is about not creating the circumstances.

First spreading must be obstructed by not to take away the litter.
Keep it inside the house, apply windrowing method then (if you want to) clean the house.

Biosecurity is a famous term sometimes being used without the full understanding or practice. Working with small farmers, it is rather difficult to get them to practice proper biosecurity. How can one go about encouraging small-scale farmers to implement proper biosecurity?

Dear Livhuwani. I totally agree with you. Sometimes it is the small family farm that does not think they need or should do any biosecurity. It is seen by them as something only applicable to the large farms. Although this is a very important area and can have huge economic effects not only for them but also for larger farms.

It is, unfortunately, an education process of why they are doing it to not only protect their family animals but also their neighbors' animals and the countryside in general. In most of these cases, the small farm relies heavily on the income from these animals and any loss or reduction in performance can be devastating to the family. I have found using simple stories about how and why they should try to keep things clean. What to do at the market and how they sell their goods helps. There are many anecdotal circumstances used from today's problems like HPAI and ASF that help. But it is a slow process and many habits and beliefs have to be overcome.

I am glad to hear you have been practicing biosecurity. You are right it is very important and crucial to the success of your business. It is hard to say what is a minimum level or as I would describe it as good effective biosecurity and owned by all on your farms. With regard to excessive, again, it should be the right programme designed specifically for your farms and with the right products. I will admit I have seen one or two things in both the Philippines and up in China which I would consider as a little over the top. But would not want this to detract from having a good effective biosecurity programme. I was in the Philippines a couple of weeks ago doing a seminar on biosecurity for swine and yes there is a lot of misunderstanding on what is called good biosecurity and understanding not only the protocol but the products used in it as well.