Animal Health
Agricultural Science · 50 practice questions
Animal diseases (predisposing factors, causal organisms, symptoms, transmission, prevention/cure for viral/bacterial/fungal/protozoal diseases); parasites (life cycles, economic importance of endo-/ecto-parasites and disease vectors, prevention via dipping/spraying/deworming/sanitation).
- Identify diseases of farm animals and their causative agents and apply preventive/curative measures.
- Classify livestock parasites, determine their role in disease transmission and apply prevention/control methods.
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- Practice question 1
Trypanosomiasis, transmitted by the tsetse fly, mainly affects livestock by
- A.improving the animal's resistance to all other diseases
- B.having no measurable effect on livestock health
- C.causing a debilitating parasitic infection that reduces productivity
- D.only affecting animals kept in extremely dry, desert regions
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C. causing a debilitating parasitic infection that reduces productivity
This vector-borne parasitic disease significantly limits livestock health and output in affected zones.
- Practice question 2
A post-mortem examination on a dead farm animal mainly is carried out to
- A.guarantee that no further investigation is ever needed
- B.have no bearing on future herd health management
- C.determine the cause of death and inform future disease prevention
- D.apply only to animals that died of old age
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C. determine the cause of death and inform future disease prevention
Post-mortem findings can reveal a cause of death that helps prevent similar losses.
- Practice question 3
National disease eradication programmes, such as historical rinderpest eradication efforts, mainly aim to
- A.encourage the unrestricted spread of a targeted disease
- B.completely eliminate a specific disease from a country or region
- C.apply only to diseases affecting crops, never livestock
- D.discourage any coordinated national response to disease
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B. completely eliminate a specific disease from a country or region
Eradication programmes work toward the total, permanent removal of a specific disease.
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