East African Officials Learn More About U.S. Animal Disease Control Program

East African Officials Learn More About U.S. Animal Disease Control Program

East African Officials Learn More about U.S. Animal Disease Control Program

I’m KayDee Gilkey with today’s Open Range.

As reported yesterday, nine East African nations are currently working to create their own animal disease control program molding the U.S. model to fit their unique needs.

Veterinarian Andrew A Clark participated in a recent tour of Eastern African group consisting of several chief veterinarian officers, laboratory directors and several epidemiologists on a trip to see first hand how the U.S. control program works.

Clark: “In Washington and Oregon, we dealt with the how the structure and components of the program that we use -- of what those components are and how they fit together. We went to the federal office in Olympia, the state veterinarian office in the Department of Agriculture in Oregon. We met with the Oregon Dairy Farmers, the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association, the Oregon Veterinarian Medical Association. We went to Oregon State University and saw how the diagnostic lab works. So they saw all of the components and how those work together.”

A highlight of the trip was visiting ranches in Southern Oregon and Idaho as Dr. Clark shares.

Clark: “Then we visited several ranches in Southern Oregon so they could see how the program influences ranchers, producers and supports the marketability of livestock.”

They then traveled on to Texas A&M and visited several feedlots, sales markets and ranches in Texas as well.

Dr. Clark says the tour helped the East African participants to solidify the program’s concepts and demonstrated how the many pieces of the program are designed to work together.

 

 

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